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Flow Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- 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…
- Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing…
- If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your…
- Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
- The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing…
- You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced this time and…
- 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…
- Competition is an easy way to get into flow.
- A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and…
- A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.
- Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.
- Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably…
- To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in…
More Flow Quotes
- Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. — Honore de Balzac
- Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it… — Tyra Banks
- Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear;… — Bruce Barton
- The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus… — Vinoba Bhave
- And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in… — Aeschylus
- Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye,… — Johannes Brahms
- Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow… — William J. Brennan