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."

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

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.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.