Take only memories, leave only footprints.
Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.
Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
Find a way to express what moves you.
What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.
I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"
Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.
Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.