Shawn Achor Quotes

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• Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Better

• I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Up
  • Live
  • Experience

• All of my businesses are profitable.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Businesses
  • Profitable

• We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Politics
  • Daily
  • Journalism

• Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Innovation

• Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

  

  Albert Ellis

• Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • World

• I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Good

• For me, 'Blade Runner' is the best science-fiction film ever made.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Science

• The next time you download a book on Kindle, buy a Michael Moore screed at Barnes & Noble, or order up a political movie from video on demand, remember that it is the Supreme Court's decision in 'Citizens United' that guarantees you the right to do so.

  

  Bradley A. Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • People

• Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.

  

  Joe Posnanski
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• Richard Madden, I loved to work alongside him; he's a very funny man.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Work
  • Funny

• I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

  

  Drew Pomeranz

• If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Study
  • Elements
  • Buddhism

• Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Forever
  • Spirit
  • Fades

• If we say that I only get at the symptoms of his anger, that carries an important implication. But is this the way we do talk?

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Important

• A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Different
  • Bad
  • True

• You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Forever
  • Study
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