I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

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

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.

Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

Let's not forget, I got divorced.

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

Action is the foundation of all success.

To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.