Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

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

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] 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."

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

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.