Carol S. Dweck Quotes

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

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

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do.

I personally think if something's not a challenge, there's no point doing it, because you're not gonna learn much.

You learn a lot from kids.