Creativity Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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“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 their minds with whatever information is readily available, as long as it distracts attention from turning inward and dwelling on negative feelings. This explains why such a huge proportion of time is invested in watching television,…

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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

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Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of…

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“Unfortunately, many people find the only challenges they can respond to are violence, gambling, random sex, or drugs. Some of these experiences can be…

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It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does…

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“It is usual to explain the motivation of those who enjoy dangerous activities as some sort of pathological need: they are trying to exorcise a deep-seated fear, they are compensating, they are compulsively reenacting an Oedipal fixation, they are “sensation seekers.” While such motives may be occasionally involved, what is most striking, when one actually speaks to specialists in risk,…

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“Wisdom and integrity cannot be found in any single domain. A broader viewpoint that breaks across disciplinary boundaries is needed, a way of understanding that combines knowing and sensing, feeling and judging. In facing this task one cannot expect to succeed in the public eye, as one can when a field of culture recognizes one’s contributions to art, business, or…

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For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

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Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as…

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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.…

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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…

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