Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Happy, Discovery

• 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

• There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Change, Two, Goal

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

• Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Quality, Consciousness, Quality Of Life

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience”, p.26, Harper Collins

• What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Motivation, Mean, Thinking

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

• If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Solitude, Quality, Ifs

• Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Order, Important, Quality

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.46, Random House

• To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Quality, Needs, Gains

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

• If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Jobs, Community, Greed

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin

• 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

• People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Quality, Able

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

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