Carol S. Dweck Quotes

...in the fixed mindset, you don’t take control of your abilities and your motivation. You look for your talent to carry you through, and when it doesn’t, well then, what else could you have done? You are not a work in progress, you’re a finished product. And finished products have to protect themselves, lament, and blame. Everything but take charge.

...it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Howard Gardner, in his book Extraordinary Minds, concluded that exceptional individuals have “a special talent for identifying their own strengths and weaknesses.

The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.

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

Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.

And this is part of the fixed mindset. Effort is for those who don’t have the ability.

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.

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

In the fixed mindset, setbacks label you.

In fact, every word and action can send a message. It tells children — or students, or athletes — how to think about themselves. It can be a fixed-mindset message that says: You have permanent traits and I’m judging them. Or it can be a growth-mindset message that says: You are a developing person and I am committed to your development.

For them it’s not about immediate perfection. It’s about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

Some of the world’s best athletes didn’t start out being that hot. If you have a passion for a sport, put in the effort and see.

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.

person’s true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it’s impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.