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Growth Quotes by 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 overcoming them? Why…
- This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s…
- This is hard. This is fun.
- Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
- Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.
- Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even…
- Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
- A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
- Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
- What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
- What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?
- The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
- It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth…
- ...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
- Becoming is better than being
- Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.
- I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to…
- So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When…
- I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
- We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as…
- Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says,…
- If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued…
More Growth Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them. — Richard Bach
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
- What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's… — Erykah Badu
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin