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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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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When I went to live in New York, I didn't mean to stay there, but here I am.
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Don't say yes to something just because it's an opportunity.
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All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.
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All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.
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I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.
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..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
