Quotes by : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

As people move through life, passing from the hopeful ignorance of youth into sobering adulthood, they....

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

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

Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things.....

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

Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex....

To keep up interest in a subject, a teenager has to enjoy working in it. If the teacher makes the task....

A large majority of our respondents were inspired by a tension in their domain that became obvious when....

Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because....

In other words, if Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy showed more than their fair share of pathology it was due....