Martin Seligman Quotes
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
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Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
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You just put your head down and do the work.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
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There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.
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If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.
