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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• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Shoes
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Books

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• It's great that people are interested in Mars.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • People
  • Great
  • Mars

• The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • World
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• 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.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • She
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • News

• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Better
  • Company
  • Price

• What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Eyes
  • Trees
  • Herbs

• I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

  

  Buchi Emecheta
  • Work
  • Women
  • Feminist

• I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • People
  • Passion

• Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Jesus
  • Memories

• Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Understanding

• I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Childhood