I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

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.