Martin Seligman Quotes
Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.
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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
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You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.
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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
