Martin Seligman Quotes
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.
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I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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I feel like being an actor it is a great way to do your job and be a parent, because you have a lot of freedom. You have a job and then the job ends and than maybe you don't have another job for a while or maybe you chose not have another job for a while. For an actor, it's like maybe you don't see your kid for two weeks while you are filming but then you might have three months off where you are at home every day and picking him up from school. I find it's a great thing.
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Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
