Martin Seligman Quotes

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Martin Seligman

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PositiveGoodHappinessPeopleMe

Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.

Jill Scott

GirlPerspectiveWritingThoughtShe

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

Andrew Sullivan

LiveFeelNeverUpHoldAvoid

My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.

Robert Sean Leonard

PeopleDesireGreatestSandboxKevin

I'm a great singer.

Mauricio Macri

GreatSinger

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

Robert Glasper

YouSellingWantOutSomething

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.

John Warner

FoodBelievePopulationFiveAllergy

As I've gotten older, I've come to grips that the unexamined life is what works for most people. Most take what they learned in school, get a job, marry, buy a house, have a family, become a great parent, serve their god, community and country, hang with friends, and live a good life. And for them that's great.

Steve Blank

LifeFamilyGoodLiveGodCommunity

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

Roger Bannister

LifeAgeWarLooking BackLooking

Come fight night, there will be nerves, but it's how you react to those nerves - doing what you need to regardless - that's how you win fights.

Robert Whittaker

FightWinNightDoingYouReact

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

Martina McBride

TimeCoolMomYouHousePerson

Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth faster. The goal is to quickly identify the costs associated with acquiring your most profitable segment of customers and the incremental value - if any - of going beyond your core.

Jay Samit

GrowthValueCustomerYouGoalCost

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

Dionne Warwick

WorkTimeSongYouArtistKnow

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