Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: September 29, 1934

Topics

Children Discipline Always Resentment

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Wife Swimming Go Drown Get Troubles

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

Jennifer Fallon

Me Wait Think You Play Serious

No matter what job you have, you're in control of your attitude. That, to me, is my biggest focus every day - being on the energy bus.

Andrew Whitworth

Attitude Focus Day Job Me Control

I've been just unsuccessful enough not to have been given a big opportunity too soon.

Opportunity Enough Big Been Just

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

Marriage Law Believe Recognition

I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.

Good Time Me Writing Feel Good Book

I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.

Grateful Peace Me Place Recovery

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

Men Fat Run Write Mexico Off

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

Wife Me Language Feel Trying Want

Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.

People Political Nobody Go Never

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

Time Best Day People Me You

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Girl Money Pet Death Feel Fat

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi