Carol S. Dweck quotes:

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world--the world of fixed traits--success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other--the world of changing qualities--it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes,

Becoming is better than being

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

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

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

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

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

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

What did you try hard at today?

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

Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

This is hard. This is fun.

What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?

Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.

A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

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??You may be outscored but you will never lose.

Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.