"Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills."

-- Richard Davidson

#Skills Quotes #Well Being Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.”
“Six Flags has to be a destination, but it's got to be a place that you want to go to every single summer and you don't want to go just for a roller coaster or a new ride. We have to sell the experience and sell the image: clean, safe, friendly and fun. The parks are not necessarily all of those attributes, but they will be.”
“I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.”
“If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!”
“I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.”

Source : "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.
“We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.”

Source : "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.
“I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.”

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