Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes
We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
Patricia Richardson -
I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
Yo-Yo Ma -
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville -
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
Daniel Ek -
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
Ian MacKaye -
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
Venus Williams -
Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
Maisie Williams -
Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
Warren Spector -
Impatience is a virtue.
Ursula Burns -
I'm pro Union.
Joanne Rowling
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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
Haile Gebrselassie -
It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.
Margaret Sanger -
I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.
Claire Tomalin -
I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.
Emo Philips -
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
Janet Suzman
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I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out.
Matt Frewer -
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
Mary Landrieu -
Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.
J Balvin -
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
Kevin Macdonald -
We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi