...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.

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

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

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