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The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not. Carol S. Dweck

Everyone Mindset Counter Developed Ideas Self-Esteem Praise Were Movement Whether Deserved

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

Teacher Future Thought Important Mindset Worshipped Promoted Determining Environment Most Most Important Thing Around Important Thing Era Up Very Fixed The Most Important Order Grew Room Us Your Even Seated Thing

One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they're praised so often that it's what they want to live as - brilliant - not as someone who ever makes mistakes. It really stunts their motivation. Carol S. Dweck

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. Charles Edward Merriam

City Corrupt Only Chicago America Unique

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. Charles Edward Merriam

Invent Situation Nothing Action Must Unpardonable Something Given Imperative Propose He Sin Doing Done Reasons Plausible Suggest

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom. Charles Fillmore

Mind Finds Kingdom Childlike

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. Charles Kendall Adams

Heart World Old Fire Every Evident Had Columbus New Well New Era Parts Era Old World Extinguished

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. Charles Kendall Adams

Success Attains No-One Simply Him Doing Required Ever

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. Charles Vest

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I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress. Charles Vest

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I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets. Charles Vest

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government. Charles Vest

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We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education. Charles Vest

Education Better Other Our Cost Through Support Make Make Up Up Efficiencies Trying Graduate Process Gaining Activities Elements Fund-Raising

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. Charles William Eliot

Business Judgements Probabilities Proceeds Certainties Beliefs

I am a fiercely independent person, and I am no one's pawn. Christine Blasey Ford

Independent Am Person Fiercely Pawn

In the summer of 1982, like most summers, I spent most every day at the Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Maryland, swimming and practicing diving. Christine Blasey Ford

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My husband recalls that I named my attacker as Brett Kavanaugh. Christine Blasey Ford

Husband Named

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California. Christine Blasey Ford

California Educational Southern Southern California Psychology Received University

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