But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

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.

What you're saying, " I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.

God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.