...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?'"
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiStudying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiThe mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiOne cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiI have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi