People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — 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
Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult,… — 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
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through… — 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
I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves. — 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
In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of… — 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
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more… — 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
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable. — 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
Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“What I “discovered” was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to… — 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 Image
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 Image
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 a tool… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
