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

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

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

Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.

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.

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.