Shawn Achor Quotes
Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.
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Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade.
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Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.
