Positive Psychology: Quotes: Frank Lloyd Wright

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Quotes: Frank Lloyd Wright

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."