Mistakes

Some thoughts about mistakes that support Glasser's quality school and Carol Dweck's mind-set theory. 

"If you're not making at least 50 mistakes a day, you're not trying hard enough."  Anonymous

Give yourself as many retakes as you need.

"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."  African proverb

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."  James Joyce

The goal becomes excellence, not perfection. 

Use Those Talents

Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. ~Henry Van Dyke

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.-- Dr. William Purkey

These two quotes support Dr. Carol Dweck's mind-set concept. 

Doing What We Can't Do--Yet

   

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso,
Spanish artist

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."

--Albert Camus,
French author, journalist and philosopher

This Picasso quote and this Camus quote fit perfectly with what we want to teach our Esperanza scholars about Carol Dweck's concept of mind-set.