Ed Diener Quotes

It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.

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• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Thought
  • Eating
  • Nutrition

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Mexico
  • Territory

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Work
  • Important
  • Happy

• What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Women
  • Care
  • Unemployment

• I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Free
  • Perfect

• I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Human
  • Born
  • Nobility

• I've been a free man.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Man
  • Free
  • Been

• Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Why
  • May

• I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.

  

  Luis Miguel
  • God
  • Women
  • Nature

• I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

  

  James Blake
  • Different
  • Writing

• You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

  

  Liz Phair
  • Life
  • Art

• Please don't compare the nature and authenticity of 'Queer Eye' to 'The Bachelor.'

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Nature
  • Authenticity

• The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

  

  Charlie White
  • Important
  • Success

• It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.

  

  Ed Diener
  • Important
  • Happiness
  • Circumstances