Eric Weiner Quotes
Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.
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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.
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People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
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So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
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I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.
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Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.
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I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.
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We believe that startups can be built anywhere.
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Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
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You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.
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Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
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I always want to be racing.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.
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Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.
