“...the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.”

“But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration.”

“But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.”

“The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.”

“But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers.”

“We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.”

“The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.”