Martin Seligman Quotes
The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.
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I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get.
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I've never written a book before.
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The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
