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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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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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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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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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 don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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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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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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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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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
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Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!
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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.
