Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Quotesthetics

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of “flow”, a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of “flow”, a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Just as the sound of a tree crashing in the forest is unheard if nobody is there to hear it, so creative ideas vanish unless there is a receptive audience to record and implement them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Design & Arts
Collective Thinking
Creativity & Ideas

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Without creativity, it would be difficult indeed to distinguish humans from apes.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Design & Arts
Creativity

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A genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a lightbulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Design & Arts
Being Disciplined
Creativity
Focus
Inspiration

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It is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the environment than by trying to make people think more creatively.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Design & Arts
Creativity
Inspiration

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Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen. Many discoveries would be inconceivable without the prior knowledge, without the intellectual and social network that stimulated creative thinking, and without the social mechanisms that recognized and spread the innovations.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Design & Arts
Collective Thinking
Creativity
Oversimplification

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Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Design & Arts
Collective Thinking
Creativity
Oversimplification

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