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Things Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- 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…
- Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
- 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…
- If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become…
- ..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental…
- It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on…
- Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who…
- Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle