Shawn Achor Quotes
The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.Shawn Achor
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
Samuel Larsen -
Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
Edgar Ramirez -
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom -
I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
Tamsin Egerton -
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
Origen
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Magic Johnson -
You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
Abraham Verghese -
I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
Samantha Stosur -
I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
Yehuda Berg -
I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
Gary Cole -
When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.
Olly Murs
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
Jack Wagner -
All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
Oscar Wilde -
Veritatem Temporis filiam esse dixit.
Aulus Gellius -
If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
Martin Lawrence -
I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
Jeff Bridges -
Arenas, to me, and especially sheds, are really great venues. You get that sea of humanity, but everybody can still see it and hear it. And that's really important to us.
Ed Kowalczyk
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180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!
Emily Procter -
I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
Nelson DeMille -
I think we all have this image that we're going to be the hold-out and show what 51 really looks like, but I could wake up tomorrow and say, 'Okay, enough of this.'
Bo Derek -
Apparently, the Fates were not so unsubtle as to deal him another blow just yet. He knew they didn’t operate that way. They always let you hope for a while longer, then strung it out before they really let you have it.
David Brin -
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
Tammy Bruce -
The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.
Shawn Achor