Zest Quotes by Martin Seligman

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me.…

— Martin Seligman

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation.…

— Martin Seligman

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to…

— Martin Seligman

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may…

— Martin Seligman

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at…

— Martin Seligman

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

— Martin Seligman

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want…

— Martin Seligman

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

— Martin Seligman

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and…

— Martin Seligman

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail,…

— Martin Seligman

One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I'…

— Martin Seligman