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.

  

  Larry David
  • Cranky

• If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

  

  Gary Player
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • See

• I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Father
  • Football

• I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Never
  • Television
  • Before

• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • True
  • Me

• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Myself
  • Sports
  • Independent

• 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
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Words
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Community
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Technology
  • Poverty
  • Impact

• If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Passion

• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Voice

• It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Body
  • Act
  • Exist

• The moment we begin to map the history of money across the last five thousand years of Eurasian history, startling patterns begin to emerge.

  

  David Graeber
  • Money
  • History

• The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Virtues

• Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.

  

  Jack Welch
  • True
  • Black
  • Forever

• It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.

  

  James Payn

• Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Decision
  • Habit
  • Impact