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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
- Half Century
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
- Dirty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
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' gets bigger and bigger, and the 'we' gets smaller and smaller.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. 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.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020