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.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.