I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.
Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those about the present include joy, ecstasy, calm, zest, ebullience, pleasure, and (most importantly) flow; these emotions are what most people usually mean when they casually-but much too narrowly-talk about "happiness. " The positive emotions about the past include satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, pride, and serenity.
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.
People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.
Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.