Martin Seligman Quotes

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.

Martin Seligman

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• As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

  

  Kaskade
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• I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

  

  C. L. R. James
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• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
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• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

  

  Zendaya
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• I kind of crave loneliness.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

  

  A. A. Milne
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• I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

  

  Ice Cube
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• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
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• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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• I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

  

  Laura Mvula
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• It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

  

  Brendan Coyle
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• Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that.

  

  Pete Sessions
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• I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
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• Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
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• The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.

  

  Barack Obama
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• It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.

  

  Martin Seligman
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