Purpose Provides Activation Energy For Living.

Pleasure Is An Important Component Of The Quality Of Life, But By Itself It Does Not Bring Happiness. Pleasure Helps To Maintain Order, But By Itself Cannot Create A New Order In Consciousness.

To Be Overcome With The Ultimate Goal Often Interferes With Performance.

I Have Devoted 30 Years Of Research To How Creative People Live And Work, To Make More Understandable The Mysterious Process By Which They Come Up With New Ideas And New Things. [...] If I Had To Express In One Word What Makes Their Personalities Different From Others, It's Complexity. They Show Tendencies Of Thought And Action That In Most People Are Segregated. They Contain Contradictory Extremes; Instead Of Being An "individual", Each Of Them Is A "multitude".

Try To Be Surprised By Something Every Day.

If You Are Interested In Something, You Will Focus On It, And If You Focus Attention On Anything, It Is Likely That You Will Become Interested In It. Many Of The Things We Find Interesting Are Not So By Nature, But Because We Took The Trouble Of Paying Attention To Them.