Martin Seligman Quotes

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

Martin Seligman

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HappinessGreatJoyPeopleExercise

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Jimmy Carter

GoodGoalsGreatManPeopleHatred

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

Joe Louis

MoneyLikeNervesActually

I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.

Jennifer Hyman

ExperienceTravelValuePeopleOver

If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.

Sofia Vergara

YouOldYearsYesBreastsAsking

The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.

Trick Daddy

MoneyMediaYouStopGetGotta

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

Tom Perez

AmericaLongFocusedNeedLong Term

House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.

Little Louie Vega

LearningMusicChurchYouHouse

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Douglas MacArthur

GodLightGoodbyeCareerFadeDuty

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

Dean Smith

CourageSportsStepCollegeForward

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Aretha Franklin

PeopleFeelKnowI FeelTalented

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

Anne M. Mulcahy

ManagementBelieveEmployeesPerson

The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would never again be a pan-European war and to create the conditions for a new European prosperity after the destruction wrought by the war against the Nazis. The E.U. has admirably succeeded at both.

Peter Bergen

WarWorldCreateNewProsperityUp

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