Shawn Achor Quotes
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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I'm curvy.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
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Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.
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Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!
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If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
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Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.
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The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
