Arthur C. Brooks Quotes

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Arthur C. Brooks

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LifeSuccessHappinessTruthValue

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

Jessica Williams

PeopleMeYouLookDownStage

My sister was an actress before I ever got into it, and I kinda wanted to do what she was doing. That was a really young age. Four years old? I just followed her everywhere and just wanted to do what she wanted to do. I didn't even know what I was getting myself into. I just wanted to be where she was and do what she was doing.

Jessie Usher

AgeMyselfSisterDoingKnowYoung

I'm a class mongrel.

Melvyn Bragg

ClassMongrel

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

John Lasseter

MeMickey MouseNeverGoofyBecause

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

Jeff Flake

PoliticsFeelFarmWillFlorida

I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

Michele Bachmann

PeopleThinkSaySincereRecognize

I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.

Dove Cameron

SchoolYouGoSayIslandHorror

Canadians have an inherent good nature, and they are used to being made fun of.

Cobie Smulders

NatureGoodFunUsedBeingMade

Having worked with many of the world's top modeling agencies for the last decade, I've seen what works and doesn't work in managing a model's career.

Coco Rocha

WorkWorldCareerModelingTopSeen

The football in Spain is more about skill and technique. Every team tries to play good football. The physical side, with plenty of running and hard tackling, plays more of a role in the Bundesliga.

Arjen Robben

GoodFootballTeamPlaySkillHard

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Kingdon Clifford

PictureYouDiscoveryReadyCreate

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

Peter Higgs

WantEuropeOutScotlandWouldWere

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