A Quote by Martin Seligman

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

Martin Seligman

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Martin Seligman
American - Psychologist
Born: August 12, 1942

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Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Robert Adams

Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason. Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions. Alarm bells for every business right there. The neurologist Donald Calne puts it brilliantly: “The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.”

Donald Calne

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

Donald Calne

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Marcia Gay Harden

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Richard G. Scott

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

Gayle Forman

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

A. G. Mohan

Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.

Donald Calne

There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

Peter McWilliams

A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.

Frederick Lenz

I like to create a character where you believe, deep down, that they don't really care if they live or die. That's very liberating for the character because, if the character is prepared to die, then they can do anything. It's impossible to stop them.

Steven Knight

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Mark Batterson

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

Yoko Ono

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