Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Change is not made without inconvenience.

life is a succession of readjustments.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

To improve is to change.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.

...the change was adjustment without improvement.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.