"You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way."

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Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Flourish”, p.37, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Martin Seligman

#Challenges Quotes #Flow Quotes #Way Quotes

“The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.”
“Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.”

Source : "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.
“I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.”
“Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.”
“Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process of being an artist, for someone who wasn't born in an arts-centric environment - I came from the Bahamas, where there's not a historic tradition of art-making, at least from the Western prospective - in a way is kind of an alien concept.”
“By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"”

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