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- Success only hurts the first time.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
- I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.
- Matthew Oliphant, Usability Works, 04-01-2006
- We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Stones of Venice, 1880
- The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), 1908
- A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- 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.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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