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.

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

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.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.