Shawn Achor Quotes

Happiness inspires productivity.

Shawn Achor

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• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Yourself
  • Gift
  • Forgiveness

• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • World
  • Different
  • Boy

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
  • Know
  • Working
  • Greatest

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Future
  • Interesting

• In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Reality
  • Speak
  • Statement

• I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Cold
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Explain

• Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

  

  Liz Williams

• I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Believe

• Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Business

• It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an actor to perform the same character for 12 hours every day, and then, after a point, there's no growth.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Stop

• Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Long

• A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

  

  John C. Maxwell

• I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Nature
  • Ideas
  • Songs

• I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Start

• The President-elect has outlined a clear vision to transform our country’s infrastructure, accelerate economic growth and productivity, and create good paying jobs across the country. I am honored to be nominated by the President-elect to serve my beloved country as Transportation Secretary.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Good
  • Country
  • Vision

• Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.

  

  David Deida
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Words

• Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• Happiness inspires productivity.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Inspire
  • Productivity