"The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own."

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Mean Quotes #Goal Quotes #Rewards Quotes

“Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.”
“My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.”

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“I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.”
“One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in the same painting. You have a kind of deep space, and then you have something like right up on the surface.”
“Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.”

Source : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.140
“Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.”
“This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They say Modi should not come. This is because those who looted the nation know that after 16th May what is going to happen.”

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