I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I'll never get bored of those questions. That's something I couldn't say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.