Well Being Quotes - Page 36

• I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

  Renee Fleming

  Mind, Difficult Times, Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Masters, Raises

  "Franken, unleashes first bill" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 20, 2009.

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• Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Long, Support

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• Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Caring, Alzheimer's, People

  "Leeza Gibbons: Star in the World of Alzheimer’s Caregiving" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2016.

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• The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

  Emma Goldman

  Change, Men, Diversity

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Mindfulness, Helping

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• Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.

  Marvin Harris

  World Religions, Principles, Followers

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• Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

  Sam Harris

  Impact, World, Morality

  "The Moral Landscape : Thinking About Human Values in Universal Terms" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  Sam Harris

  Failing, Wells, Taliban

  "Print: Atheism's Poster Boy Sam Harris on the Science of Morality". Interview with Olivia Koski, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  Salma Hayek

  Drama, Thinking, Years

  "Salma on Her Lifesaving Work (and Brand-New Baby)". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2008.

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• This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

  Hermann Hesse

  Feelings, Contentment, Harmony

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• As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

  Lauryn Hill

  Inspiring, Mean, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

  Lauryn Hill

  Order, Safety, Guarantees

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Husband, Divorce, Men

  "Transcript: National Press Club Q&A with President Gordon B. Hinckley". Interview with Jack Cushman, www.deseretnews.com. March 8, 2000.

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• My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Decision, Want

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• When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Book, People, Looks

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• People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loneliness, Emotional, People

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• It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Want, Measurement, Economist

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• Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Giving, Leader

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• Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

  Miriam Makeba

  Girl, Mother, Parenting

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• Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Mean

  "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics".

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• The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

  Andrew Weil

  Weight, Carbohydrates, Wells

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• The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

  Andrew Weil

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

  "Q&A: 'Spontaneous Happiness' with Andrew Weil". Interview with Daniel Lefferts and Luke Dempsey, www.usatoday.com. March 21, 2013.

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• In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

  Abdul Kalam

  Individuality, Democracy, Important

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• Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Heart, Men, Order

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