Carol S. Dweck Quotes

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

I've had a terrible career.

Football is still fun, but it's not so much fun when you're losing, especially when you prepare as hard as you can, you go out and have four targets, two catches and 10 yards.

Send not a Catt for Lard.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

We have ploughed the sea.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

Nothing you could do would make me mad. You're a complete official failure.

For some time past I have conscious that I was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result.

I pass my days in a state of exasperation. First, with the fools who do not want any of the things that ought to be done, and second, with the equally obnoxious fools who insist upon so much that they cannot get anything done.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

It offends me when people do useless work.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

It wouldn't be the worst thing if you don't play that well but take points.

For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of time.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.