Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes
To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
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It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
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Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.
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The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
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To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
