Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

Work hard, have fun and make history.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

Become someone's hero.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

Deadlines and things make you creative.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

You can inspire people to give you greatness, or you can micro-manage them into your own one specific kernel of an idea. To me, I think that when you inspire people to give their best, then you're going to get the best result.

If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

If you inspire one person each day, you’re day hasn't been a waste. It’s been a blessing.