Martin Seligman Quotes About Psychology

Quotes about: Psychology

• The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

  Martin Seligman

  Things In Life, Psychology, Quality

• So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose

  Martin Seligman

  Country, Psychology, Finding Yourself

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.10, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

• Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

  Martin Seligman

  Spiritual, Thinking, Years

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.30, Vintage

• Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

  Martin Seligman

  Sports, Medicine, People

• Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

  Martin Seligman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Psychology

• By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

  Martin Seligman

  Creative, Feelings, Psychology

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.44, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

• 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 do.

  Martin Seligman

  Psychology, Trying, Faces

• When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

  Martin Seligman

  Psychology, Authenticity, Virtue

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.17, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

• Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Reality

  "Martin Seligman : Pursuing Happiness With a Positive Outlook, not a Pill". Interview with Steve Proffitt, articles.latimes.com. January 24, 1999.

• The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

  Martin Seligman

  Fundamentalist Religion, Psychology, Brighter Future

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