"Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning."

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Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.67, Random House

Carol S. Dweck

#Focus Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I'm a jerk, that's who I am. I'm like everybody else.”
“All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.”
“People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.”

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“Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.”

Source : George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press
“Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.”
“Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.”
“The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.”

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