But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.

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.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.