Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.

The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

I would not be content to be considered a mere imitator of nature.

-- El Greco

Try to do what you cannot, so that you may learn how to do it.

-- Rembrandt

The works will speak for themselves.

-- Artemisia Gentileschi

My illustrious lordship, I will show you what a woman can do.

-- Artemisia Gentileschi

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

-- Sara Blakely

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

-- Mary Kay Ash