"As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment."

-- Shawn Achor

#Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.”
“Everybody in America is angry about something.”
“Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.”
“This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.”
“I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor.”
“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...”

Source : James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.35, Vintage
“I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.”

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