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- Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
- Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...when we…
- It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder…
- Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most…
- Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.
- 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 paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting…
- 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…
- A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and…
- Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback…
- To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years,…
- ...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…
- Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep…
- Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster