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GRETCHEN NIES It's pretty difficult to draw someone from the outside world at the caliber you want to maintain. We...
GRETCHEN NIES I was a little nervous given the enormity of the moment. But I knew she would say yes.
ERIC NIES It's really hard. I miss her like crazy all the time. However, on a positive note, I think it has be...
ERIC NIES Michelle and I met in January 2005, and started dating around spring break of 2005. Probably midway ...
ERIC NIES

Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a se...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk an...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling gui...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. P...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limi...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Chur...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little noteb...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Work done by other people sounds easy. How hard can it be to take care of a newborn who sleeps 20 ho...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we bel...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Kee...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketch...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and fu...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outco...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat i...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of thos...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I f...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habi...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable y...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; t...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was l...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one per...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I get such a buzz out of cleaning closets.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through pap...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clut...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of my...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.
GRETCHEN RUBIN You want to have a feeling when you sing that you just love singing; you love the feeling of singing...
GRETCHEN PARLATO

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachm...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the a...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because...
GRETCHEN RUBIN The minute that you go to arbitration, it's 100% confidential, so nobody ever hears about it.
GRETCHEN CARLSON Arbitration clauses have become prevalent in most corporate agreements or contracts for employees.
GRETCHEN CARLSON

People often assume that the same approach will work for everyone, that the same habits will work fo...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit star...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes cle...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Be brave and be fearless, and for God's sake, stand up for yourself.
GRETCHEN CARLSON

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagree...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Holding true to what you believe - even in a big city - is so important.
GRETCHEN CARLSON

I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Spending hours stressed out in front of the TV isn't the same as volunteering or donating. Feeli...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexi...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in s...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive...
GRETCHEN RUBIN All women deserve a dignified and respectful workplace in which talent, hard work and loyalty are re...
GRETCHEN CARLSON Even though we have laws against it and HR departments to handle it, a woman - especially if she is ...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting m...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspira...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Now, the term 'friend' is a little loose. People mock the 'friending' on social medi...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Some of the student's family members and friends will attend (the evening performance.) Some people ...
GRETCHEN LEITNER It's more parts than people. Their hard work is commendable. They've been great under such a strict ...
GRETCHEN LEITNER Our class has been working since January reading and studying the process of Shakespeare's work tryi...
GRETCHEN LEITNER It's a classroom project. If people decide to make any (cash) donations, it would be contributed tow...
GRETCHEN LEITNER Ultimately, I think there's this umbrella term of jazz, and what's cool about not just what&...
GRETCHEN PARLATO The meditative, calm sound is a reflection of my personality. I've got a silly and a crazy side,...
GRETCHEN PARLATO

We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I wasn't naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked m...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my co...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Most people enjoy 'potato-chip news' from time to time - to track a presidential election or...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have l...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's p...
GRETCHEN PARLATO

Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are peop...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpe...
GRETCHEN RUBIN It's not like I have a master plan or anything.
GRETCHEN MOL I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children: that the world ...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but do...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is try...
GRETCHEN MOL Most of them are man-bashing, downing guys. This one doesn't do that. 'Redneck Woman' is just a song...
GRETCHEN WILSON

What you do everyday matters more than what you do once in a while.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, r...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I ma...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented:...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have e...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's p...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just h...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against pa...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important el...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity
GRETCHEN RUBIN

It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain go...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Look for happiness under your own roof.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to m...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

The days are long, but the years are short.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

These tasks weren't urgent (which was the reason they didn't get done), but because they weighed on ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It'...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. P...
GRETCHEN RUBIN The discount offers are for the best available seats, and are often orchestra seats.
GRETCHEN SHUGART I would never recommend leaving them unattended. They do tend to dig into your carpet. Electrical co...
GRETCHEN FIESER

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surroun...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I'm real concerned with the health insurance issue. I think that our association could probably look...
GRETCHEN WEHMHOFF They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind o...
GRETCHEN WILSON A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet.
GRETCHEN LEITNER I just didn't expect it to have the impact it did, and that was where I was naive. At the same time ...
GRETCHEN MOL I didn't feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didn't think about it....
GRETCHEN WILSON

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden chang...
GRETCHEN RUBIN My career had zero to do with whether or not my husband also worked. It had everything to do with pe...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, a...
GRETCHEN RUBIN To this day, I have an open door policy. I seek out interns and young women and try to help them. Wo...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

Take care of difficult calls or emails as quickly as possible. Procrastinating just makes it harder;...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I've reinvented myself many times in my life. I thought I'd become a concert violinist but b...
GRETCHEN CARLSON Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.
GRETCHEN WILSON

It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconscio...
GRETCHEN RUBIN To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.
GRETCHEN WILSON She has changed so much about the women's side of the sport. Hannah is always going all out, and she...
GRETCHEN BLEILER

Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I cling to the hope that with more and more women in the workplace, we can teach younger generations...
GRETCHEN CARLSON My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I...
GRETCHEN CARLSON When people watch me on TV, they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind t...
GRETCHEN CARLSON I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.
GRETCHEN CARLSON Sometimes when women come forward about sexual harassment, they're seen as a troublemaker.
GRETCHEN CARLSON I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.
GRETCHEN WILSON Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.
GRETCHEN MCNEIL I am saddened by the prevalence of powerful men disrespecting and objectifying women - and getting a...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is c...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.
GRETCHEN MCNEIL Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to re...
GRETCHEN CARLSON I wasn't prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the...
GRETCHEN CARLSON It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, ...
GRETCHEN PARLATO

I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Wheneve...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I didn't win Class President in tenth grade. I was too chubby to win a role in the school play &...
GRETCHEN CARLSON

In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break ou...
GRETCHEN RUBIN The news media continues to do a sterling job of spotlighting animal-protection issues, but when it ...
GRETCHEN WYLER They're a good group of young folks with a lot of potential.
GRETCHEN WOODS I think that it speaks to the success of the event when you have to move to a new location to meet t...
GRETCHEN WOODS I think that he will draw a crowd. It's a name that folks will recognize.
GRETCHEN WOODS It'll take time, of course. But we've come together so quickly.
GRETCHEN WENDLEBERGER We looked at the game afterwards, and we saw how bad we wanted it. How we can actually take on a tea...
GRETCHEN WENDLEBERGER We're all just clicking, working together finally.
GRETCHEN WENDLEBERGER There are a growing number of AEA members who are seeking more information about what's going on.
GRETCHEN WEHMHOFF In fact, that's one of the reasons that the team, most likely, was let go last June, is that we had ...
GRETCHEN WEHMHOFF I'm an AEA member, I'm also the former spokesperson for the bargaining team that was let go in June.
GRETCHEN WEHMHOFF People see good things have started happening and we'll continue to push it forward. I'm a taxpayer ...
GRETCHEN WARNER (Voters) wanted to see accountability.
GRETCHEN WARNER We're going to make a good team.
GRETCHEN WARNER Oracle reported it was ahead of plan in December and January but saw a significant slowdown in Febru...
GRETCHEN TEAGARDEN We believe Oracle's shortfall is an omen for other names in our universe.
GRETCHEN TEAGARDEN What's been driving the valuation has been an expectation of really strong applications revenue grow...
GRETCHEN TEAGARDEN It isn't for everybody. But there's nothing more exciting than building a business.
GRETCHEN SHUGART We turned the corner during 2003 and were profitable in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. In the ...
GRETCHEN SHUGART But the Internet has made it possible for the box office to have an official record of who is coming...
GRETCHEN SHUGART It's really the most satisfying job I've ever had. I could not dream up a better job, for me.
GRETCHEN SHUGART The bigger the class [of individuals suing], the bigger the award, the bigger the cut that the lawye...
GRETCHEN SCHAEFER You can't tell me that some of these lawyers aren't motivated purely by greed.
GRETCHEN SCHAEFER We expect all of those bills to come back.
GRETCHEN SCHAEFER I am wondering what I am going to do now.
GRETCHEN QUEBE The top five girls at the meet are training for the Olympics and its fun to compete against them and...
GRETCHEN PLAMONDON Because the girls don't make as many mistakes at zones, if you make more than one little error, it c...
GRETCHEN PLAMONDON He really cares and will work with you until you get it done. If you have the drive as a diver, he w...
GRETCHEN PLAMONDON It was a rush of excitement and we were all really excited to have a meet the next day to step it up...
GRETCHEN PLAMONDON She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it wa...
GRETCHEN MOL Mary believes that at the center of everyone is a mystery. And the idea that you can sum up a person...
GRETCHEN MOL Some of the girls are taller than me and have more muscles than me, but that just makes me run harde...
GRETCHEN LAMAR Faith Burt (of Cedar Falls) won (the 100-meter dash) last year and my goal is to beat her.
GRETCHEN LAMAR I remember all the people there. It made me want to get back.
GRETCHEN LAMAR It can accommodate everyone's schedule.
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