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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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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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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Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
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Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
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Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
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When I'm on the field, the trick I like to do most are stepovers. For me, it's a simple, beautiful dribble that also has a point.
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
