Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

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

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

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