Ed Diener Quotes

Maximizers, according to a series of studies by Schwartz, are lower than satisficers in happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and higher in depression and regret!

Ed Diener

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• I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • God
  • Christian
  • Fight

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Confidence
  • Worry
  • Loss

• I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Way
  • Fashion
  • Wear

• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Food
  • Cold
  • Sick

• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Worked

• I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Work
  • Right
  • Wanted

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Age
  • Hope

• My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Machine
  • Options
  • Sophistication

• Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Live
  • Children
  • Love

• I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Work
  • Moment

• Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.

  

  Craig Venter
  • People
  • Environment

• But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Freedom

• I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Black

• I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

  

  Peter Facinelli

• In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Business
  • Waves

• I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • People
  • World
  • War

• At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Prosperity

• Maximizers, according to a series of studies by Schwartz, are lower than satisficers in happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and higher in depression and regret!

  

  Ed Diener
  • Happiness
  • Regret
  • Self-Esteem