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Inspirational Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.
- One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
- Purpose provides activation energy for living.
- Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
- When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
- Goals transform a random walk into a chase.
- Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
- People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.
- Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.
- Find a way to express what moves you.
- Shift often from openness to closure.
- Develop what you lack.
- Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.
- Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch.
- If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?
- One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.
- If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.
- the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
- But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.
- A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento