“It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.” — 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… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The future,” wrote C. K. Brightbill, “will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes… — 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 best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life. Without challenge,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“but make the self grow? To fill free time with activities that require concentration, that increase skills, that lead to a development… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“It has been said that all the stories have already been told, that there is nothing left to say. At best, a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have enormously greater opportunities to have a good time, yet there is… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“In the past few thousand years—a mere split second in evolutionary time—humanity has achieved incredible advances in the differentiation of consciousness. We… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“s come true. The time channeled into such a task is perceived as time subtracted from the total available for our life.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“It seems we can manage at most seven bits of information—such as differentiated sounds, or visual stimuli, or recognizable nuances of emotion… — 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
