Shawn Achor Quotes

It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.

Shawn Achor

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• Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Right
  • Got
  • Hipster

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Daily

• We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Worry
  • Smart
  • Speech

• Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • School
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Los Angeles
  • Certainly
  • Los

• I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Work
  • Live

• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving
  • Point
  • Crush

• Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Power
  • Society
  • Control

• Whether you like me, or hate me, this is me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hate
  • Like Me
  • Hate Me

• Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • Truth
  • America
  • Today

• People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Reading
  • Information

• When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Compassion

• When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Law
  • Spiritual
  • Understand

• Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Together
  • Strength
  • Weakness

• Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Important
  • Bad

• You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

  

  Carole L. Glickfeld
  • Happiness
  • Flow
  • Unhappiness

• Search back into your own vision- think back to the mind that thinks. Who is it?

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • Thinking
  • Spiritual

• It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Happiness
  • Hard