Quotes About Diener

#1. I'm fairly tired of hipsters. They have terrible taste in music. These kids come in and say, 'You don't have anything that was released this year?' That makes me crazy. We don't need anything from this year! (Bob Diener, owner of Record Swap in Champaign, IL)

Eric Spitznagel

#2. At any given moment, I've always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.

Michael Dirda

#3. Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#4. He was all but shouting, stalking toward her. He grabbed her arms and gave her a little shake. "This time, the bastards don't win. I win."
"What do you win?" she whispered.
He bent his head and crushed his lips to hers.

Michelle Diener

#5. I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible

Robert Biswas-Diener

#6. The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#7. Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times ... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#8. In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

Noam Chomsky

#9. Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

Hillary Clinton

#10. Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases.

Paul Kalanithi

#11. I love you."
"You've loved other people but you still left them."
"It's not that simple."
"I don't want to be another scalp on your pole.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that
it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going.

Michelle Diener

#13. I have a choice. I can whine about things that have happened, and can't be undone, or I can make the best of the situation I'm in.

Michelle Diener

#14. 'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

Taylor Swift

#15. I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.

Tera Van Beilen

#16. We often hate others because we fail to understand them.

Debasish Mridha

#17. All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.

Terry Pratchett

#18. She hadn't seen him since yesterday, and Charlotte did not understand the sensation that gripped her at the sight of him.
As if she were a lightning rod, waiting for the storm above to strike. As if she had lost all control over her life and was thrown into chaos.

Michelle Diener

#19. Of anyone, I know better than most we are what we make ourselves.

Michelle Diener

#20. She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton.

Michelle Diener

#21. Society gets by from the help of its citizens.

Brian Joyce

#22. I think he's quite aware , as is everyone here, that you don't need to worm your way into my bed, Miss Raven." He stepped away from her. "You need only crook your finger and I would be ripping your clothes off your body.

Michelle Diener

#23. I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Gene Tierney

#24. The only shame is to have none.

Blaise Pascal

#25. Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#26. Peace and Violence complement one another and both are undermined without the presence of the other.

Kannan

#27. Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

Jim Beaver

#28. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Norman Davies

#29. It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.

Ed Diener

#30. Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.

Ed Diener

#31. Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

Robert Biswas-Diener