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 CsikszentmihalyiThere are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiFor better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiA business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiBut it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiProblems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi