Carol S. Dweck Quotes

I grew up in an environment that promoted a very fixed mindset. It was an era that worshipped IQ and thought that your IQ was the most important thing in determining your future. My sixth-grade teacher even seated us around the room in IQ order.

Carol S. Dweck

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Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.

Jim Davis

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I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.

Jesmyn Ward

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I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

Joe Wright

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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

John D. Rockefeller

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I feel, for the most part, especially in comedy, you make your own work, and maybe that's true across the board.

Anna Faris

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I love Lorde's music.

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Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

Tony Harrison

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I went on a road trip and ended up in Portland, Oregon, and from there, I did non-stop theater. I had just graduated, and I had all these ideas about what good acting was, but I hadn't put any of it into action. I spent five years honing my acting chops. And then I had this epiphany one day that I need to go to L.A.; I need to be on a sitcom.

Michaela Watkins

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The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

Don Henley

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We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could be a poor choice or a good choice or anywhere in between. But we make that decision in the moment, and we live with the consequences.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

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I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

Annie Leibovitz

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Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Phyllis McGinley

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