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Energy Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Purpose provides activation energy for living.
- Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we…
- Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing…
- A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same…
- Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and…
- In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes…
- Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who…
- ...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul"…
- To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in…
- ...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It…
- Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
More Energy Quotes
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the… — Sai Baba
- The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts… — Joe Baca
- The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu
- What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. — Ralph Bakshi
- Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
- It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast,… — Roger Bannister
- The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy. — Christine Baranski
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams