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Develop what you lack.
Find a way to express what moves you.
Shift often from openness to closure.
If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?
Goals transform a random walk into a chase.
Try to be surprised by something every day.
Competition is an easy way to get into flow.
Purpose provides activation energy for living.
the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
Participate as fully as possibly in the world around you.
Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch.
It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.
Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there
Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to.
Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.
Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.
Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.
People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.
To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.
For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.
It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.
Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.
Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.
To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work
It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.
Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.
Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.