Martin Seligman
Related People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: th... CHRISTO DEYTH BANGER CHARLIZE THERON JAMES MCAVOY ANDIE MACDOWELL I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in sch... SANFORD I. WEILL I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, wh... JAMES CAAN I don't know what it is about these post-apocalyptic movies where it's like... people really... JOSEPH DAVID-JONES It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of wor... F. GARY GRAY There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and bein... SHERILYN FENN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no... EDDIE MARSAN And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how the... LAURA INNES DONATELLA VERSACE It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know y... CASTER SEMENYA TOM CRUISE SANDRA OH ERIN HUNTER TED SARANDOS MARK ZUCKERBERG HUME CRONYN DARREN ARONOFSKY I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want... ADAM LEVINE CHRIS KYLE When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an... CHRIS PRATT BRENE BROWN At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, ... JULIA ORMOND Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just s... CHRIS PRATT I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about. DREW POMERANZ Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. 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If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. 
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about... 
Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I do... 
For me, it's sad to say, but I would probably have a spiritual marriage but not a legal marriage... 
I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don... 
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine. 
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even... 
I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, ... 
He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. 
I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. I... 
The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do peop... 
I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it i... 
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think ... 
In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting... 
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified... 
I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's whi... 
People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reachin... 
I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just... 
Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it transl... 
Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that... 
I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun.... 
I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family. 
I want to see women in pantsuits or two pieces, even something a little bit gaudy. It's so much ... 
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. 
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write ab... 
All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jo... 
I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's ... 
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go... 
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I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal. 
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Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what i... 
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It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, s... 
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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapid... 
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Only a god can save us. 
Transcendence constitutes selfhood. 
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! 
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The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. 
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. 
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