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Skills Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
- A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
- If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your…
- Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.
- One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.
- Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill…
- 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…
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- Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success. — Joe Baca
- I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a… — Amy Adams
- I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income… — Ellen Barkin
- The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of… — Dave Barry
- The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. — Bruce Barton
- Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else… — Mario Batali
- It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach
- There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or… — Jeff Bezos
- Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. — Ambrose Bierce
- Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in… — Judy Biggert