Barbara Fredrickson Quotes
Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.
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VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become much more creative.
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This story does not have a happy ending; they almost never do. The only happy stories you will ever hear are told by men—they spin their lies, trying to convince themselves that they cause no devastation, and that the hearts they break were never worth much to begin with.
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To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.
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Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
