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Martin Seligman Quotes

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Martin Seligman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1942

Topics

Happiness Justice Meaning Want Just

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

Loyalty Writing Never Producer Head

I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.

Life Music Light Job Me Night

Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you.

Impossible Mission You Summer Never

Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out to do.

Aging Moon Out Going Setting Fable

It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

Wake Up Think Hell Doing You Race

I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.

People Being Different Think Shame

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

Funny Comedy Movies Things Just Oh

I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.

Love Failure People Me Unhappy See

It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.

Bobby Schilling

Amazing Internet You Teach

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Change Eating Start Direction Penny

I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.

Challenge Practice Me Camera Choose

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Best Care Better Worry Philosophy

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