Flow Quote by Csikszentmihaly Download Open image ““...what the social environment told them to want...”” — Csikszentmihaly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flow Social environment
“It’s the way humanity is; give them what they want, and it turns out it’s not what they wanted after all.” — Kelsey Sutton Copy Share Image
“They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.” — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“I’d figured out that it wasn’t just about food and shelter. Obviously, that was important, but it was the people that I met, the… — Melody J. Bremen Copy Share Image
“people saw what they wanted to, expected to, and so rarely what was.” — Lauren Gilley Copy Share Image
“They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It was cool in the terminal, but I felt the heat of social pressure.” — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
“But I do not fit well into any social mold whatsoever. That is not appealing to others.” — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“... In those kinds of houses with those kinds of lifestyles, the kids either work to get away from the situation, get sucked into… — Molly McAdams Copy Share Image
“The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.” — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's… — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“...the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.” — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If a person learns to enjoy and find… — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration.” — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“The last great attempt to free consciousness from the domination of impulses and social controls was psychoanalysis; as Freud pointed out, the two tyrants… — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness. ... And we assume that if only we could… — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“The names we use to describe personality traits - such as extrovert, high achiever, or paranoid - refer to the specific patterns people have… — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
“But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers.” — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way. — Naoko Mori Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
