Shawn Achor Quotes

Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.

Shawn Achor

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If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

Jerry Seinfeld

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To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.

Andrew Whitworth

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My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.

Matt Mullenweg

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What's so wonderful about the street is it's organic music. No preservatives. There's no other reason to be out there except you just love music and want to play.

Andy Grammer

LoveMusicYouPlayWantStreet

I will never see myself as a businessman. I'm a designer. I have to be true to what I believe.

John Rocha

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GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.

Steven Adler

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I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

Johnny Vegas

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And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Christopher Hitchens

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In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Peter Thiel

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What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.

Peter Landesman

TruthMeStoryAmericanLearnYou

There is a reason they called it chasing your dreams and not walking after them.

Shannon Sharpe

DreamsYour DreamsWalkingReason

I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.

Nicola Sturgeon

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