Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“To achieve creativity in an existing domain, there must be surplus attention available.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“After curiosity, this quality of concentrated attention is what creative individuals mention most often as having set them apart in college from… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“In other words, if Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy showed more than their fair share of pathology it was due less to the requirements… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“To achieve historical creativity many other conditions must be met. For instance, you must be lucky, for to excel in some domains… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“You cannot transform a domain unless you first thoroughly understand how it works. Which means that one has to acquire the tools… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
“Unfortunately, many people find the only challenges they can respond to are violence, gambling, random sex, or drugs. Some of these experiences can be… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
“It is usual to explain the motivation of those who enjoy dangerous activities as some sort of pathological need: they are trying to exorcise… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
“Wisdom and integrity cannot be found in any single domain. A broader viewpoint that breaks across disciplinary boundaries is needed, a way of understanding… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share
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