Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

The characters in Person of Interest are unique in incredible way.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

Fear depends on time for it's strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

God is a luxury I can't afford.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

I was born to be champion of the world

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.