"If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are."

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Source : "Happiness: The elusive emotion". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2006.

Daniel Gilbert

#People Quotes #Done Quotes #Lawyer Quotes

“Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.”
“Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.”
“I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems completely random to the victims.”

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“In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind.”
“First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
“Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years”
“The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.”
“Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.”

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