Shawn Achor Quotes
As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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There's so many accusations that are so ridiculous about Pete Wentz that are taken as the gospel-people just assume that he posted pictures of his penis on the internet. That is the stupidest fucking thing thing I've ever heard. Why on earth would you ever do that?
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Let me buy a security pass … so that they can scan me and and search me and measure my penis, then let me get on the plane.
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Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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...opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.
