Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

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.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what Im doing.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

You've never seen me dance, have you?

There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.