Shawn Achor Quotes

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

Shawn Achor

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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.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Trying
  • Belief
  • I Can

• Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Needs
  • Through
  • Genre

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Pressure
  • Tomorrow

• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Active

• I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Me
  • Needs

• 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.'

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Men
  • Want
  • Know

• Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Needs

• The world needs ditch diggers, too.

  

  Ted Knight
  • World
  • Money
  • Needs

• There doesn't need to be a God for me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • God
  • Needs

• 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.

  

  B. Traven
  • People
  • Help
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Needs

• If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Needs

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Question
  • Needs
  • Frustration

• No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Leader
  • Belief

• Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Jesus
  • Needs
  • Hero

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Help
  • Worry

• The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Needs

• 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.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Die

• Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Belief
  • Resistance
  • Running Away

• I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Earth
  • Interesting
  • Play

• Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Prison

• The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

  

  Anneli Rufus
  • Vulnerable
  • Fabulous
  • Loner

• I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Knows
  • Physics

• Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Needs
  • Belief
  • Realization