The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Copied!

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Copied!

Create Short URL Publish Text About This Quote Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more

Learn to handle books, you will learn how to enjoy life.
AMAN JASSAL Thinking positive is a habit,learn how to do it & enjoy eventful life.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy t...
NANETTE MATHEWS If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON

There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND How to live life;If we live each day as if it will be our very last,one day we will be absolutely co...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... Enjoy today. It's one of the "good old days" you will miss in the future!
ETTA SAWYERR

Learn how to learn before you learn; then learn to love before you love
MUNIA KHAN It would have been really unfair had we not been gifted the next precious months. [...] Don’t you ...
TILLIE COLE You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the ...
S.A. TAWKS I enjoy hanging around energetic, effervescent young men and women because they have yet to learn ho...
CATMAN COHEN

Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
GEORGE HERBERT Loneliness teaches one the biggest lesson of life so learn to enjoy it.
ANUJ SOMANY One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really ...
CHRIS PAUL Life is given. Success is not. That's exactly why many people do not succeed, because the path isn't...
NICO DEAN FULGENZI

Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.
LORII MYERS A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Life is not a problem to be solved, but without solving problems you cannot enjoy the life.
LALIT BHOJWANI

I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them ...
ALFONSO RIBEIRO Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...

People just need to relax and go about their life and enjoy life and enjoy Laurens for how they see ...
DAVID LYNCH

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER how to remove shortcut virus youtube how to remove shortcut virus yahoo answers how to remove shortc...
HOW TO REMOVE SHORTCUT VIRUS

She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals sho...
MADDY MALHOTRA

A lifetime isn't forever, so take the first chance, don't wait for the second one! Because sometimes...
C. JOYBELL C.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little mo...
JEANNETTE WALLS Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.
PHILIP BROWN

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the wo...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a t...
LAINI TAYLOR Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much cons...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Efficiency is often the enemy of fun. It doesn't have to be.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inv...
JACQUES POULIN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK He came to school to learn and in turn he taught me the greatest lesson of life. Everyday I think ab...
DELORIS MCCAFFERTY Chances are, what you would enjoy would be attractive to people like you.
DONALD BROWN

Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER If you allow yourself to experience the present moment, you will discover that it does not get bette...
VICTOR SHAMAS

But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life. Although I have faced them many time...
HELEN KELLER

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than u...
HELEN KELLER We can't change what life brings us, but we can change how we react.
JIM GENOVESE I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is com...
CAMERON DOKEY

What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously.

"Well, that all depends on ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.
JOHN BYTHEWAY If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt b...
CAMERON DOKEY

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain b...
HELEN KELLER I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira
DAN WELLS

But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel t...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN

That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matte...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

More Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or disci...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Contrary to what we usually believe . . . the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, recept...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be mi...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agree...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try makin...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them re...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

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

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, w...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be h...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to ex...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, b...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

If the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for li...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Alternatives to Materialism. I lived my life in an ivory tower, and business was to be held at an ar...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness. ... And ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

...what the social environment told them to want...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

...the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides im...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond pr...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degr...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully con...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

When someday I die, Please tell those whom I know That I ebbed with the Flow
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

You cannot transform a domain unless you first thoroughly understand how it works. Which means that ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Music is usually resorted to as a form of self-therapy when you?re not involved enough in what you?r...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by gr...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

При прочих равных условиях лучше прожить жизнь, насыще...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

the love of fate corresponds to a willingness to accept ownership of one's actions, whether these ar...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

You could say that I worked every minute of my life, or you could say with equal justice that I neve...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

When the lifestyle of a social group becomes obsolete, when work turns into a boring routine and com...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Unfortunately, while free time might be a necessary condition for happiness, by itself it is not suf...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the real...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and w...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

The sacred books of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the Veda are the best repositories o...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

The apologists for the medium claim that all sorts of interesting information is provided by televis...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

according to the Greek philosophers, that we become truly human by devoting time to self-development...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

If everything was determined
by the common human condition, by social and cultural categories, ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support th...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

while personal income in the U.S. more than doubled between i 96o and the 19gos in constant dollars,...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Первый историк Запада, грек Геродот, описал в «Персидс�...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Недостаточно просто наслаждаться жизнью, чтобы считат...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

To pursue mental operations to any depth, a person has to learn to concentrate attention. Without fo...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

The roots of interpersonal conflict are often an excessive concern for oneself, and an inability to ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

True, most married men are convinced that their lives are dedicated to the family, and from a materi...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Even if we don't want to admit it, the ability to overcome most obstacles is within our hands. We ca...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

The quality of life does not depend on happiness alone, but also on what one does to be happy. If on...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

it was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claim t...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our d...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values,...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anyth...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Assimilating the style of predecessors is necessary before one can develop one's own. Only by immers...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Copied!

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Share:

Related

More Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi