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Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.
 Carol S. Dweck

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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Becoming is better than being
 Carol S. Dweck
No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
 Carol S. Dweck
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
 Carol S. Dweck
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
 Carol S. Dweck
I believe ability can get you to the top, says coach John Wooden, but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'
 Carol S. Dweck