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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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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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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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 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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If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?
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I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?
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Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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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.
