quotes about Peak Experiences

“Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.”

“I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.”

“The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.”

“It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.”

“Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.”

“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”

Source : John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.45, Harper Collins

“Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.”

“Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?”

“I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.”

“People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.”