Ed Diener Quotes
It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.Ed Diener
Quotes to Explore
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
Zuleikha Robinson -
I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
Valentina Zelyaeva -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. Guest -
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
Nafisa Joseph -
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 -
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos -
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 -
I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.
Luis Miguel
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
Hannah Bronfman -
I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.
Akkineni Nagarjuna -
For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.
Jameela Jamil -
It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.
Jami Gertz -
Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
Jeff Nichols -
Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
Anna Julia Cooper
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin -
Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.
Saadi Yacef -
We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.
Dalai Lama -
Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!
Gail Simmons -
It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
Ed Diener