When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.

The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to it's limited in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

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