Shawn Achor Quotes

Work is an antidote for anxiety, and ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Whatever our circumstances in life, my dear brethren, let us do the best we can and cultivate a reputation for excellence in all that we do. Let us set our minds and bodies to the glorious opportunity for work that each new day presents.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

I think the only reason I've had the career life that I've had is that someone told me some secrets early on about living. You can do the very best you can when you're very, very relaxed, no matter what it is or what your job is, the more relaxed you are the better you are. That's sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that's a job I could be proud of. It's changed my life learning that, and it's made me better at what I do.

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.

Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.