Christopher Peterson quotes

“How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.”
-- Christopher Peterson

Source : Christopher Peterson (2013). “Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections in Positive Psychology”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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“Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters.”
-- Christopher Peterson

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“There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.”
-- Christopher Peterson

Source : Christopher Peterson (2006). “A Primer in Positive Psychology”, p.128, Oxford University Press

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“What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.”
-- Christopher Peterson

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“If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.”
-- Christopher Peterson

Source : Christopher Peterson (2012). “Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology”, p.277, Oxford University Press

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“"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"”
-- Christopher Peterson

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“What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.”
-- Christopher Peterson

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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”

“When all else fails, complicate matters”

“No matter where I am, I will always be there when you need me.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”

“The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.”

“One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee