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

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Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.235, Random House

Carol S. Dweck

#Mistake Quotes #Growth Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I do know that I can take a punch. I've been punched in the face three times. That's, I think, a really important thing to know about yourself. It helps you in life. It helps you be brave when you know you can take a punch. I'm a lover, not a fighter. But, God bless me, I can take a punch.”
“Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.”

Source : "The wild west" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2001.
“The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.”
“It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis.”
“The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.”
“The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love.”
“Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.”
“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”

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