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“You know what they say about guys with big hands.”
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“Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.”
Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.7, Random House
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“When you associate with scum, you become scum.”
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“The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.”
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“The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.”
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“And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.”
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“You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.”
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“The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.”
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“I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.”
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“Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.”
