Quotes by Shawn Achor

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Author, and speaker · American · 1978

American author, and speaker (born 1978)

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“You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.”

“Happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential”

“You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.”

“Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”

“Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.”

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“You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.”

— Shawn Achor

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“Happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential”

— Shawn Achor

happiness joy potential

“Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act exc...”

— Shawn Achor

action aristotle excellence knowledge

“As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.”

— Shawn Achor

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“Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fa...”

— Shawn Achor

leisure mindset work

“Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”

— Shawn Achor

Success Daily Decisions

“Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.”

— Shawn Achor

Time Stress Research

“You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.”

— Shawn Achor

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