Martin Seligman Quotes
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
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A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
