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Experience Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not…
- What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard…
- But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is…
- Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
- Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we…
- People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us…
- The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing…
- A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting…
- There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals.…
- Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes…
- If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.
- If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a…
- To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years,…
- It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila