Martin Seligman Quotes

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

Martin Seligman

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SurpriseBetterInterestingActing

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

Jim Crace

WordsThinkYouSprayHeardBeetle

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Stewart Udall

LifeBusinessLongOverPlanetWho

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

Stone Gossard

WaterWantHumanInstinctNear

If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.

Steve Prefontaine

MeWorldRunBeatWantsAnybody

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Robert Blair

LifeFriendshipSoulSocietyCement

A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.

Michael Pollan

FoodQualityFreeAmericanDiet

I have nice watches. I don't set them.

Lisa Murkowski

WatchesNiceSetThem

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

Dean Norris

PeopleMeComedyYouPlayTiming

Fiction is a report from the interior.

Deborah Eisenberg

FictionInteriorReport

We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.

Arancha Gonzalez

WomenThinkTalkingRunEmpowerment

Writers are nerds.

Shane Black

NerdsWriters

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

Richard Sherman

MeWayUpComeLikedCoaches

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