Shawn Achor Quotes

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

Shawn Achor

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• Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • Belief
  • Slow

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • Time
  • Action
  • Doubt

• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Powerful
  • Engineering

• You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Action
  • Politics

• Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

  

  Edmund White
  • Marriage
  • Effort
  • Gay

• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Country
  • Home
  • Action

• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Understanding
  • Appreciation

• At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • World
  • May
  • Action

• It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

  

  Joe Taslim
  • Good
  • Action

• Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Powerful

• Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

  

  David Hume
  • Death
  • Friend
  • Powerful

• Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Truth
  • Moving
  • Powerful

• Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Faith
  • Jesus

• We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Women
  • She
  • Beautiful

• A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

  

  Billy Strayhorn
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Effort

• Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.

  

  Matt Busby
  • Job
  • Tired

• Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

  

  David Shuster
  • Good

• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Remember
  • Forget
  • Metamorphoses

• I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • God
  • Heart
  • Experience

• Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.

  

  George Osborne
  • People
  • Country

• Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Action
  • Powerful
  • Effort