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Ideas Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work
- Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a…
- Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is…
- For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way…
- I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come…
- Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.
- The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe