Martin Seligman Quotes

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

Martin Seligman

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TeenPeopleYouBadMoreEvents

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

Maud Welzen

LoveDramaticLikeAbsolutelyRead

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my life. So, in 'A Feather on the Breath of God' I write about my parents, I write about this Russian immigrant, I write about the world of dance, but it isn't an autobiography; so much is left out.

Sigrid Nunez

LifeGodDanceParentsWorldWrite

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Robert Baden-Powell

TimeBestHappyWorldBetterDie

The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.

Mike White

PeopleSufferingMeCrazyDrive

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

Julia Child

FoodYourselfBelieveExcusesYou

I want to go to a team that really wants me and can use me to be successful.

Jared Goff

MeTeamGoWantSuccessfulWants

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

GreatGenerationGeniusDownMankind

If you have been suffering with physical ailments or even a spiritual emptiness, I want to share with you what I know to be true: The more love and reverence you give your body, the better you will feel.

Debbie Ford

LoveSpiritualSufferingBetterBody

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

BeautyGriefShadowPainMindGift

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Christian Bale

ShoesYourselfEmpathyPeopleActing

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

Peter York

CoolMediaLondonArtsBetween

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Peggy Noonan

LoveDisappointmentHelpFallJust

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