It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

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.

I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day

Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law

Cleavage is to a man what power is to a woman.

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

Try to be surprised by something every day.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.