“I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.” PeopleWorldAbleJobsLostStrongSocialLevelsResultsGreaterLandMissingConnectionsOptimismThreatFarmersVery StrongFamily And FriendsBankersUnstableKidnappingVenezuelaConsultantsZimbabweMissing OutSalespeople Author:Shawn Achor
“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.” PleasureResultsEffortBeautySeeingFashionMissingReturnLaborSurfaceForfeit Author:Roderick E. Stevens
“I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.” YearsWellsWholeSeemsGamesResultsActingWorryMissingLuckDistanceWork Out Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I will miss the contact with the people - the privilege of trying to communicate to people every day that the court system is going to work for them the way it's supposed to work. That doesn't guarantee they're going to get the result they want, but the court is going to listen and follow the law and try to make a fair decision. That is an awesome privilege and responsibility I will miss.” PeopleWayWantTryingLawDecisionResultsResponsibilityMissingFairsCourtPrivilegeCommunicateContactGuaranteesGoing To WorkCourt SystemPrivilege And Responsibility Author:Steven Pacey
“Nobody needs a cookie. You will never get your lab results back, Well, apparently, Miss Bexim what you need - and I am a doctor, I've never seen this before - some sort of a cookie. You're actually too healthy. You need a cookie.” NeedsWellsResultsMissingHealthyDoctorsCookiesLabs Author:Dom Irrera
“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.” ThinkingInspirationalBigsLossResultsHistoryCrazyMissingPositiveBasketballShotsConsequenceNegativeNbaFear Of FailureBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballBasketball MotivationNba PlayerGreat BasketballBig ShotsBasketball Is My LifeBasketball Is LifeBasketball And LifeBasketball LifeNegative ConsequencesToughness In SportsSports Mental Toughness Book:I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence
“What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white identity that's been rendered invisible and neutral because it's seen as objective and universal. As a result, we don't pay attention to how whiteness is one among many racial identities, and that identity politics have been here since the get-go.” HeartHas BeensEndsCultureLeftWhiteResultsPayAttentionMissingIdentityUniversalInvisibleObjectivesPay AttentionAmerican CultureWhitenessIdentity PoliticsRacial Identity Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.” KnowsWholeMomentsSeemsTodayPastOpportunityLostMemoriesChanceResultsRaceFailingMissingEventsRegretPainfulWhole LifeWinnerStringsRemorseCome Back To MeMoments Of HappinessLost OpportunityNear MissesUnable To Love Book:The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly