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

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Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.228, Random House

Carol S. Dweck

#Growth Quotes #Useless Quotes #Vivid Quotes

“Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.353, Boydell & Brewer
“Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.”
“I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.”
“I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.”
“Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when youâ€™re not looking, itâ€™s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, itâ€™s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, itâ€™s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you donâ€™t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.”
“I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.”
“I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.”
“I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.”

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