Shawn Achor Quotes
Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
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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.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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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.
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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.
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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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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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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!
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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.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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My solos are speech-influenced rhythmically; and harmonically, they're either pentatonic, or poly-scale oriented. And there's the mixolydian mode that I also use a lot...But I'm more interested in melodic things I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.
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My grandmother was not a great storyteller.
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The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.
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I think my children are definitely musically inclined, and they show it, and they're exposed to a lot of it. And they're their own people, and I think easily they could do something musical, or they could do something in acting or film or other types of the arts, and I would fully support it.
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Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
