Shawn Achor Quotes

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

Shawn Achor

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• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Point
  • Move

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Thinking
  • Technology
  • Better

• I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

  

  Flume
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Fuse

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Know
  • Successful
  • Facebook

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Question

• Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Movie

• I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

  

  Katie Featherston
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Smart

• I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Denial

• The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Space
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Fighting
  • Film
  • Struggle

• From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Blue
  • Kitchen
  • Rings

• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Winning
  • Army
  • Glory

• Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Mean