Shawn Achor Quotes
The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
Quotes to Explore
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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Little things please little minds.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.
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Another wing of the party seems to be putting its hands up. They're not all resisting and accepting the [Donald] Trump - the fact that he could very well win the nomination.
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It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
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I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.
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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
