Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

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 interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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• Attention
• Focus
• Psychology

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• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
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  • Mind
  • Nature

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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  • Song
  • Day

• Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Evil

• This is the Outsider's extremity. He does not prefer not to believe; he doesn't like feeling that futility gets the last word in the universe; his human nature would like to find something it can answer to with complete assent. But honesty prevents his accepting a solution that he cannot reason about.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Attention

• I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• I'm quite into fitness, and I have a fantastic personal trainer who knows me, knows my body, knows when to push me, and knows when not to push me. She doesn't make me do 20 burpees in a row and instead focuses on strengthening my core, telling me we need to focus on making me into 'a tall giraffe'!

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • She
  • Focus
  • Fitness

• I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Focus

• I am, by nature, an optimist.

  

  Martin Heinrich
  • Nature

• Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Science
  • Psychology

• I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • People
  • Attention

• All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Attention

• Many people focus on the 4 percent rule, which essentially says that as long as you withdraw no more than 4 percent from your retirement accounts each year, the money should last you 30 years.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  

  Carol P. Christ
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Death

• I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

  

  Brendan Sexton III
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Dance

• I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Past
  • Hate
  • Tomorrow

• On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Home
  • She
  • Power

• We all allow each other to explore our individual things that make us happy, and so we're just being supportive of each other and making sure we focus on Fifth Harmony, and what's important to the group is important to all five of us.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Focus

• 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 interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

  

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Nature
  • Attention
  • Focus