"Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?â€ If so, he says, â€œYou may be outscored but you will never lose."

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Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.207, Random House

Carol S. Dweck

#Winning Quotes #Effort Quotes #Growth Quotes

“All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.”
“Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run an idea by Steve [King].”

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“Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.”
“When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.”
“What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?”
“Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.”
“I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.”
“Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.”

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