Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The coffee shop played a big role in Vienna of 1900. Rents were sky high, housing was difficult to come by, your… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Money sometimes buys happiness. You have to break it down, though. Money is a means to an end. The problem is when you think… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“My way of thinking is completely different,” he says. “I have no such mountains to scale; basically, I find that living itself is a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have" ... we experience flow,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“In a nutshell, Gross National Happiness seeks to measure a nation’s progress not by its balance sheet but rather by the happiness—or unhappiness—of its… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“Bhutan is the land of la. The monosyllabic word serves as all-purpose affirmation, honorific, and verbal tic. Mostly, it is a softener, appended to… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“He tells me of one American woman, forty-five years old, who was able to conceive only after being blessed by the Holy Dildo. That’s… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“Yes, but it doesn’t matter, Csíkszentmihalyi argues. Either way, we experience flow, a state of mind where we are so engaged in an activity… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. Maybe the current conditions in Switzerland .… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
