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Martin Seligman - From the Belief category:
A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Children category:
We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Competence category:
The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Depression category:
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Desperation category:
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Ego category:
Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Finishing category:
In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to re-enter it. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Flow category:
Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Freedom category:
We're not prisoners of the past. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Future category:
On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Goodness category:
People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Habit category:
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Happiness category:
There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else? (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Health category:
By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Hope category:
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Hope category:
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Life category:
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Life category:
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Money category:
Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Opposites category:
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Optimism category:
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Pleasure category:
Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Questions category:
What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five? (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Success category:
Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence. (Martin Seligman)
Martin Seligman - From the Wisdom category:
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. (Martin Seligman)
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