Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“...success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.” — 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
A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its… — 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
“Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious… — 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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