Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Long, Desire, Rewards

• For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Ideas, Intellectual, Intelligence

• Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Desire, Energy, Vigor

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

• Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Desire, Would Be

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.27, Penguin

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