Activity Quote by Martha Beck

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

— John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

— John Updike

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

— Gyorgy Kepes

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

— Daniel Kahneman

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still…

— Jimi Hendrix

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

— Paul Goodman

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin