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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has 146 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them…
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Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
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The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or…
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What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.…
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Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
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Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,…
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Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results…
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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or…
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Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to…
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Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define…
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The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human…
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The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget.…
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It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days…
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Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter…
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me…
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During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’…
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I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then…
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It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss…
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Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something…
— Roxane Gay
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