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Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Develop what you lack.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creating meaning involves bringing order to the contents of the mind by integrating one's actions into a unified flow experience.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To pursue mental operations to any depth, a person has to learn to concentrate attention. Without focus, consciousness is in a state of chaos.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly," in the words of J. H. Holmes. "It is simply indifferent.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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 future," wrote C. K. Brightbill, "will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
unless a person learns to set goals and to recognize and gauge feedback in such activities, she will not enjoy them.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Find a way to express what moves you.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Thus we might think of consciousness as intentionally ordered information. This
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
