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Trying Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a…
- The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It…
- There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals.…
- Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.
- Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.
- I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense…
- We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
- It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look…
- The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash