Shawn Achor Quotes
Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.
Quotes to Explore
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'
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The world needs ditch diggers, too.
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There doesn't need to be a God for me.
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Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.
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Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.
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If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about the dislocations brought on by globalisation. Many of those frustrations are legitimate and they need to be addressed.
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No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.
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Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.
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If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
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The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.
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There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.
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This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.
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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
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I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?
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Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.
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Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.
