"But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is also necessary to have an overall context of goals for the events of everyday life to make senseTo create harmony in whatever one does is the last task that the flow theory presents to whose who wish to attain optimal experience; it is a task that involves transforming the entirety of life into a single flow activity, with unified goals that provide constant purpose."

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Goal Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Wish Quotes

“We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.”
“They've offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun.”

Source : "Fenn de Siècle" by Joshua Mooney, Movieline (USA), p. 36-40, 80-82, July 1993.
“I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.”
“If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.”

Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.33, Basic Books
“Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.”

Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.234, tredition
“Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.”

Source : Suzanne Braun Levine (2011). “The Woman's Guide to Second Adulthood: Inventing the Rest of Our Lives”, p.134, A&C Black
“Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'”
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”

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