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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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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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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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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I'm a good person, but with many defects.
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all."
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I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.
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At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
