Shawn Achor Quotes
When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.
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And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
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Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
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I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
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Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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If the President does it, it can't be illegal.
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When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.
