Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

I love trying new things.

Personally, I enjoy being able to see something that you haven't seen before.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

The unknown is always interesting.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

I'm always trying to think of things we haven't done.