Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Sometimes you have to re-invent yourself in this business in order to be accepted in different roles.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Wow, I think you grow all the time when you're working. You start the job and by the end of it, if it's a long one, you kind of say, 'My God, I was so different at the start of this job.' I always feel like I've changed for the better with each one.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

I need to learn every day.

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

I've changed my character 100 per cent; if not, I could never have become a manager.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

I think the things that I learned that stick with me are things you often repeat, even today, which is never stop learning.

Every day, I want to learn something new; I want to move up.

I am always on the lookout for roles which will help me better myself.

I want to evolve and improve as a professional.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

I have to reinvent myself.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.