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“A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.”

Anxiety Flow Backgrounds Intense Boredom Dull Flash Typical

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I like to live in the present. I struggle with that, though, because - even for all of this "letting your life flow" stuff - I also have anxieties.”

Stuff Struggle Anxiety Flow Live In The Present

Author:Meredith Vieira

“They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But if you get rid of that negativity, which goes away naturally when you transcend every day, these ideas are more freely flowing, and you get happy in the doing. You get fresh and inspiring ideas, and a bigger picture starts to emerge of the world and life. It's very good for the artist, businessman, fisherman, and any kind of person really.”

Ifs World Kind Persons Ideas Artist Sorrow Anxiety Negative Flow Bigger Stress Very Good Tension Negativity Businessman Tubes Doing You Fisherman Bigger Picture World And Life

Author:David Lynch

“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.”

Thinking Balance Easier Disease Anxiety Flow Greed Jealousy Ease Wellness

Author:Ricky Williams

“One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.”

People Fall Can Do Results Source Anxiety Flow Essence Bored Boredom Glorious Frustration Capability Workplace Exceed Mismatch

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.”

People Doe Seems Process Mines Fit Anxiety Flow Trauma Narrative Plot Ptsd

Author:Jessica Stern

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Running Pain My Own Secret Anxiety Flow Stress Patience Want Me Furnaces Without Pain Stress And Anxiety

Book:Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses

Source: Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses

“Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a opponent, not a quirk of size or style. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accept them, and put them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots. His body quickly follows.”

“Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.”

Ifs Activity Anxiety Flow Excitement Gaps Anxious Spontaneous Ongoing

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.”

“For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying.”

Found Hours Challenges Ability Pleasure Learning Study Demand Anxiety Lows Percent Flow Absorbing Achiever Socializing

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ