"Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?"

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Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.7, Random House

Carol S. Dweck

#Get Better Quotes #Waste Quotes #Wasting Time Quotes

“Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.”

Source : Jacob Abbott (1835). “The Young Christian: Or, a Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian Duty”, p.303
“I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.”
“I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements in music.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.”
“Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Revelation 12:7). How can there be a war in a perfect place and if it happened before why couldn't it happen again? Why would I want to go to a place in which war can occur? That's exactly what I'm trying to escape, aren't you?”
“It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.”
“We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.”
“Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.”

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