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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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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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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A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
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As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.
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As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
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Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
