Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the competition.

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your body grounded, your mind flexible, and your heart open.

Fear is the killer of a great future life.

Arise and shine.Arise and fulfill your destiny.

Every man is destined to win. Whether he wins or not is determined by whether or not he aligns himself with God's will.

The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.

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