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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Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.
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Those who don’t have a dream, it’s okay, it’s okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy.
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From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.
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I knew it was right to make time for myself to have adventures and fulfil dreams.
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When I began my practice, I said I'm going to be a pediatrician that really thinks about and understands a child's educational trajectory.
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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.
