Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

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

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.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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