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Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1946

Topics

Success Failure Good Intelligence

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Government Step Law Democracy Legacy

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

I Am Say More Libertarian Than Am

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

Life God I Am Face Think Go

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Michael Eric Dyson

Money People Clothes Dark Wrong Who

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Mercedes McCambridge

Work Actor Try Only Even Glad

Smudge your eyeliner. It creates a smoky effect.

Your Effect Smoky Creates

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

I Can See I See Playing Something

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

Work Business Me Doing Artist Break

No one nor anything can silence me.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Silence Me Anything Nor

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

Deepika Padukone

Parents Me Wrong Hand Way Never

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

King Liberty Would Rather Than

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