Sean Wise > Sean's Quotes

“A mathematician proved a proposition false by showing it ended in contradiction. Zen tried to find truth using contradiction as the starting point.”
― Andrew McGlinchey, Cloudthinker: A Science Fiction Thriller

“A person must conquer their own self. What we think, we become. And as we change our behavior, so do our thoughts change.”
― Andrew McGlinchey, Cloudthinker: A Science Fiction Thriller

“to do anything really well, you have to overextend yourself,”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit

“If you’re a business, you don’t care whether a kid thinks they’re special. What you care about is ‘Can you deliver? If you can’t deliver, hey, we don’t have any use for you.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit

“I tend to think that everything that happens is something I can learn from.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“day should be scripted? Not at all. But I do think kids thrive when they spend at least some part of their week doing hard things that interest them.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit

“without directly experiencing the connection between effort and reward, animals, whether they’re rats or people, default to laziness.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit

“Here in a campus bubble it was easy to look around and believe the country was swept up in a wave of change and possibility, a narrative propagated and commodified by the social media companies inflicting a new colonialism on people’s minds.”
― Stephen Markley, The Deluge

“To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Mindsets are just beliefs. They’re powerful beliefs, but they’re just something in your mind, and you can change your mind.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“The problem is when special begins to mean better than others. A more valuable human being. A superior person. An entitled person.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“The growth mindset is a starting point for change, but people need to decide for themselves where their efforts toward change would be most valuable.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“When the golem has accomplished its mission—typically the martial defense of the Jewish people (as was the case with the Golem of Prague, widely considered the Michael Jordan of golems), but sometimes manual labor (the task appointed to the Golem of Chelm, usually regarded as the Scottie Pippen of golems)—the aleph is erased from his forehead, changing the word truth to the word death and causing the golem to return to a state of vacant immobility, like a toddler in front of a television screen.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“But outside the bubble, beliefs could easily get decoupled from deeds, and if you didn’t do everything, it became easier and easier to do nothing.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn