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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has 146 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them…
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Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
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The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or…
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What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.…
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Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
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Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,…
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Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results…
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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or…
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Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to…
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Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define…
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The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human…
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The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work
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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
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After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to…
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there…
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Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power…
— L. Neil Smith
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Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly…
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Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was…
— Richard Henry Stoddard
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We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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