Shawn Achor Quotes

..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.

Shawn Achor

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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.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Gold
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Years

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Need
  • Trouble
  • Bank

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Laws
  • Now And Then

• 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.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Money
  • Nation
  • Grateful

• 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.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Kind
  • Matter
  • Strange

• Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Religious
  • Target
  • Radical

• I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

  

  Randall Park
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• 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.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Corruption
  • Outside
  • Africa

• Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Death
  • Living
  • Dead

• It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today

• I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Design
  • Lying
  • Impression

• The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing

• The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Player
  • Deep

• I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!

  

  James Caan
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Remember

• ..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Believe
  • Ability