Martin Seligman Quotes

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Martin Seligman

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• Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Good
  • Work
  • Memorial

• People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Fear
  • Understand
  • Lose

• The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chance

• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Fact
  • Started
  • Vine

• Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Beat
  • Noble
  • Ideals

• Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Society
  • Education

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Think
  • Otherwise

• The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Lifestyle
  • Spotlight
  • Footballer

• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Honor

• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • You
  • Know
  • Story

• When it comes to social issues, Republicans don't just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Need

• From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • God
  • Path

• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Computer

• I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

  

  John Bright
  • House

• These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • True
  • Discovered
  • Chains

• The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

  

  Martin Seligman