It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

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.

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

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.

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

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.