Shawn Achor Quotes
When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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I'm focused on being the best, making history.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
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И если умирает человек,с ним умирает первый его снег,и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...
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2) Never fire a laser at a mirror.
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American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials. You'll see black people in automobile ads, black women starring on their own television shows. We don't see that on British television.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
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People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.
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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
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When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
