Shawn Achor Quotes

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

Shawn Achor

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• I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Attention
  • Empty
  • Ice

• Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Human
  • Create
  • Activity

• 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.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Instinct

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Lost

• I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Hell
  • Coat
  • Fur

• Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
  • Different
  • Character

• Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Country
  • Think
  • House

• In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Great
  • Perception

• The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Scene

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Reason
  • Absurd

• I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Together

• I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

  

  Eminem
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • People
  • Hate

• This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

  

  Bobby Bonilla
  • World
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit: We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules. We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room. We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach. The library is closed to the students.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Learned

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Brain
  • Anxiety
  • Incredibles