Shawn Achor Quotes
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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I want to have kids. But I want to have kids without a wife. Then again, I also want my kids to have a mother.
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A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.
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A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart — hearts are made to be broken — but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
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I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.
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Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
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We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.
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Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.
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The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
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Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.
