Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

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.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable.

Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

I ain't never liked violence.

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.