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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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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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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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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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 haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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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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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.
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It is that dream we carry that something miraculous will happen that it must happen - that time will open that the heart will open that doors will open and that the rock face will open that springs will gush forth - that the dream will open and that one morning we'll glide in to a harbour we didn't know was there.
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When someone is there for you, has your back, that's somebody to pay attention to because that's a friend.
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When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
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I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
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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.
