Quotes for Mindset

I grew up in an environment that promoted a very fixed mindset. It was an era that worshipped IQ and thought that your IQ was the most important thing in determining your future. My sixth-grade teacher even seated us around the room in IQ order.

Carol S. Dweck

Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area, but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.

Carol S. Dweck

I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment.

Tom Brokaw

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

Joseph Stiglitz

I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges.

Carol S. Dweck

We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though they're damaging and harmful. If they show anxiety or overconcern, those kids are going toward a more fixed mindset.

Carol S. Dweck

I teach a freshman seminar every year, and we delve very, very deeply into their mindsets. They read scientific articles, but we also focus on what their mindset is, and they learn to recognize when they are in more of a fixed mindset, because we're all a mixture.

Carol S. Dweck

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

Steve Ballmer

Chinese culture is already telling children to work hard. That's not growth mindset because they're working hard for the product, not for the growth or the joy of learning.

Carol S. Dweck

Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on the negative end of the stereotype.

Carol S. Dweck

I believe every person has a story that comes out from the way they talk, their opinion, their mindset and their body language.

Diljit Dosanjh

It's really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my parents have shown me that's not true.

Maya Hawke

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.

Carol S. Dweck

What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.

Carol S. Dweck

I just had that mindset to never settle. That's a credit to my pops, too. He used to say 'the sky's the limit' every time we talked.

DaBaby

I don't like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that's the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.

Nathan Blecharczyk

I had a persistent mindset that I was going to make something happen for myself.

Frank Vogel

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Jennifer Egan

When a team gets into the mindset of, Alright, I've got a good shot... he's got a better one, they're going to be tough to beat.

Larry Nance, Jr.

In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.

Zaza Pachulia