Sal Khan Quotes

I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.

With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

Through recovery, I've been able to do so much good stuff.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

Some advice from a beginner: never judge your full potential based on your first run.

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

Every year is a roller coaster. I've enjoyed the struggle of having new coaches and having to prove myself over again. Being able to figure out ways to solve problems, to overcome obstacles - that's been fun.

I learn from my failures, but I will always try technical things; I will always try to take pleasure and do great things.

When there's a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, 'Maybe I don't have what it takes?' They may get defensive and give up. A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacle, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.

I learnt to relax a little more and enjoy the process, which is something I didn't do in my first movie - understandably, I guess.

One of these days, I'm going to stop learning through my errors.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.