Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

If I had to express in one word what makes the creative personality different from others, it would be complexity. Like the color white that includes all the hues in the spectrum, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves.

As Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist who recognized and named “flow,” notes, “The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”4