Mindset Quotes by Carol S. Dweck

What did you try hard at today?

— Carol S. Dweck

“Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.”

— Carol S. Dweck

We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.

— Carol S. Dweck

You can't just declare that you have a growth mindset. Growth mindset is hard.

— Carol S. Dweck

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end…

— Carol S. Dweck

I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges.

— Carol S. Dweck

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

— Carol S. Dweck

I grew up in an environment that promoted a very fixed mindset. It was an era that worshipped IQ and thought that…

— Carol S. Dweck

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

— Carol S. Dweck

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you…

— Carol S. Dweck

With a growth mindset, kids don't necessarily think that there's no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but…

— Carol S. Dweck

Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on…

— Carol S. Dweck

When entire companies embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling far more empowered and committed; they also receive far greater organizational…

— Carol S. Dweck

People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook - qualities they believe they've…

— Carol S. Dweck

As the growth mindset has become more popular and taken hold, we are beginning to find that there are pitfalls. Many educators…

— Carol S. Dweck

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving…

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This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail —…

— Carol S. Dweck

It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way…

— Carol S. Dweck

When someone endorses a fixed mindset, it can limit them, even if they're successful at the moment, because if they start struggling…

— Carol S. Dweck

“IF, like those with the growth mindset, you believe you can develop yourself, then you're open to accurate information about your current…

— Carol S. Dweck

“Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A test score? A dishonest or callous action? Being fired from…

— Carol S. Dweck

I teach a freshman seminar every year, and we delve very, very deeply into their mindsets. They read scientific articles, but we…

— Carol S. Dweck

“Iacocca lived the fixed mindset. Although he started out loving the car business and having breakthrough ideas, his need to prove his…

— Carol S. Dweck

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of…

— Carol S. Dweck

“What on earth would make someone a nonlearner? Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily.…

— Carol S. Dweck

“When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they’re special. Even…

— Carol S. Dweck

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid,…

— Carol S. Dweck

“Every lapse doesn’t spell doom. It’s like anything else in the growth mindset. It’s a reminder that you’re an unfinished human being…

— Carol S. Dweck

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the…

— Carol S. Dweck

Creating organizations that value a growth mindset can create contexts in which more people grow into the knowledgeable, visionary, and responsible leaders…

— Carol S. Dweck

Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can…

— Carol S. Dweck

The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.

— Carol S. Dweck

You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's…

— Carol S. Dweck

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep…

— Carol S. Dweck

“growth mindset: a zest for teaching and learning, an openness to giving and receiving feedback, and an ability to confront and surmount…

— Carol S. Dweck

With a fixed mindset, you're so worried about how smart or talented you are, you don't take on challenges. You don't try…

— Carol S. Dweck

What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five…

— Carol S. Dweck

We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though…

— Carol S. Dweck

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to…

— Carol S. Dweck

“Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes…

— Carol S. Dweck