"If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them."

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Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.128, Basic Books

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Interesting Quotes #Focus Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.”
“I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.”
“More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.”

Source : "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.
“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library
“The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians and a lead singer whose commitment to artistic freedom was so intense he rocketed them to a success that always hovered on the edge of chaos. As an independent filmmaker this sensibility affected me greatly.”
“The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.”
“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.”
“The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.”

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