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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There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.
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I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me.
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You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
