Ed Diener Quotes
Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.
Quotes to Explore
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
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Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
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In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
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I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
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There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
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A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.
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Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
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Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.
