Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotations

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.