Carol S. Dweck Quotes

I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.

When someone endorses a fixed mindset, it can limit them, even if they're successful at the moment, because if they start struggling and tumbling, they can lose their confidence, but also, they may not create a growth mindset environment for others.

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

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

I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

To learn is to change.

Anything that I don't understand or can't do is stupid.

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

Life's greatest setbacks reveal life's biggest opportunities.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

no knowledge obtained without risk

So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!

When you stop learning you stop growing.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.