growth mindset quotes

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Success is not a stop sign.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

To make headway, improve your head.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Find people who will make you better.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.