If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

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.

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

Overcome the stigma of self-marketing.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.