Shawn Achor Quotes
By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
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Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
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We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.
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I am a rank individualist.
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Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'
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I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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I had a ringside seat to cancer. As have most people.
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Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
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A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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I'm not cut out for politics.
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I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
