Shawn Achor Quotes
Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
Shawn Achor
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
Zachery Ty Bryan
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
F. Sionil Jose
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
Nate Powell
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
A. A. Milne
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
Viggo Mortensen
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
Barry Corbin
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
Rafael dos Anjos
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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.
Xavier Niel
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong passion and love for someone or something that your heart just can't let it go. Whether it's a special boy, girl, or that feeling you get when performing on stage or playing a sport. For me, my passion is music. I just can't let it go!
Manika
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
Lady Gregory
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
Pat Gillick
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In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
Gary Lineker
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I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.
Lillete Dubey
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
Seth Godin
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For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
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Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
Shawn Achor
