Barbara Fredrickson Quotes

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

Barbara Fredrickson

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Right
  • Got
  • Hipster

• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Different
  • United States
  • Russia

• We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Story
  • Everyday

• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

  

  Parris Glendening
  • Water
  • Depression
  • Table

• I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Real
  • Human
  • Afraid

• Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Power
  • Society
  • Control

• With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Road

• A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• ECONOMICS COCKTAILS. Ingredients: Austrian, Behaviouralist, Classical, Developmentalist, Institutionalist, Keynesian, Marxist, Neoclassical and Schumpeterian. ... Health warning: On no account drink only one ingredient – liable to lead to tunnel vision, arrogance and possibly brain death.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Death
  • Health
  • Brain

• Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

  

  Lee Gutkind
  • True
  • Ideas
  • Story

• Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Heart
  • Backwards
  • 707

• Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Love
  • Truth

• Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • American
  • College
  • Player

• Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Value
  • Happiness
  • Satisfaction