Shawn Achor Quotes

The research says that being successful doesn't automatically make you happier, but being happier - being more positive - makes you more successful.

Shawn Achor

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With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.

John C. Mather

BookMissionLightsChapterWill

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

Matt Taibbi

RealityCongressKindWayDifficult

In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don't realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.

Matt Taibbi

ChangeTeaVictoryRevolutionBack

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

Michael Franti

BeautyPeopleWorldFreakyMake

Acting is my passion, but I like hosting shows, too.

Amy Jackson

PassionActingHostingLikeShows

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

Roy H. Williams

MirrorPeopleYouLookPersonSee

In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way.

Matt Besser

WorkThinkComedyDistanceWayUp

I don't have just one role model - rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models.

Julia Hartz

GreatYouGreat ThingsVillageBuild

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Jostein Gaarder

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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Christopher Lasch

MarriageImprovementOldOutRuins

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

Brandon Routh

AttentionEarlyPlaceSupermanOver

I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

Woody Harrelson

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