Martin Seligman Quotes
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.
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What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
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We are kids. The only difference is the toy we have.
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The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is made available to our people. In fact, free and candid discussion of vexing problems is the bedrock of democracy and it may be our surest safeguard for peace.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
