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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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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.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
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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.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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I'm pro Union.
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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
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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.
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I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.
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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.
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Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'
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There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.
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Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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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.
