Shawn Achor Quotes
..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.
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There was such sanity in his voice; a politician’s sanity, as he sold his flock the wisdom of the bomb. This soulless certainty was more chilling than hysteria or malice.
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X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
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I'm not here to – as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.
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..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
