Top 15 Richard Layard Quotes
#1. Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
#2. Frankie," she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and the people I want can always come to dinner.
Helen Hudson
#3. I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel
#4. ... and look down the glowing store front of a 24 hr bodega. I am not overly concerned about going in there with one bare foot and a considerable amount of dried blood on my clothing. This is the Bronx after all. But best to minimize the visual impact I might make.
Charlie Huston
#5. People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
#6. Forget solar energy - if you could harness denial, it would power the world for generations.
Neal Shusterman
#7. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#8. Instead of following her original plan to have an abortion, she and Fode had decided to conduct a radical social experiment they called Having the Baby, and because of the outcome of that experiment, she had dropped out of school.
Ann Patchett
#9. What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.
Nile Rodgers
#10. There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
#12. Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.
Massimo Carlotto
#13. Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Josh Billings
#14. My cooking spoon,
My magic wand,
Of this dish,
You will be fond.
The Silver Elves
#15. Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
Marc Maron
