Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Business, Believe

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.34, Penguin

• To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Life, Mean, Thinking

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.8, Basic Books

• The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Psychics, Feelings, Peculiar

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

• Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Memories, Feelings, Important

• One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Feelings, Existential, Excellent

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.131, Basic Books

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