If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise

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.

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

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

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

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.