Shawn Achor Quotes
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
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I'm cranky.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.
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A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
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In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
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Amandla Stenberg is so powerful in her energy and what she speaks about and what she projects. I think it's incredible.
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No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
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If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
