Shawn Achor Quotes

Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.

Shawn Achor

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeExperienceJoyFeelLongYou

I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.

Jennifer Damiano

FamilyWhiteBornUpI Was Born

I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.

Mia Wasikowska

TimeBornNeverBeenThanHappier

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Alphonsus Liguori

LoveStrengthFearConfidenceGod

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.

Tom Douglas

HomeTimeKingSweetWorldPig

I've always been shy; it's just that I transform on the pitch. I'm a different person. Off the pitch, I'm another person. That's how it has to be.

Roberto Firmino

PersonShyAlwaysDifferentOffHow

I've been called an extremist.

Michael T. Flynn

BeenExtremist

What is the secret of Stalin's unquestioned strength? He controls every wheel and screw of the party machine, which is the source of authority and power in the Soviet Union.

Louis Fischer

StrengthPowerPartyWheelAuthority

When you're responsible for leading a group of young people, you have to be positive. If you're not, you shouldn't be in your job, should you?

Louise Wilson

PositiveJobPeopleYouYoungGroup

I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

Chloe Sevigny

PinkClothesKindBlushSingerHigh

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Christopher Hitchens

GrowthParentsRestDrivingYoung

I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and think that what your character is doing is ridiculous. You don't want anyone to watch it and go, 'Oh my God, that's just fortuitous.'

Claire Foy

GodCharacterThinkDoingYouWant

Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey

LuckDesign

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