Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.

People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

Do you have a clear Direction of Life or are you merely floating down the river of Life like a dead fish?

Sometimes I briefly touch the life I want. My hand brushes the surface as I pass it by.

All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous.

Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!

Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

My wife and I practice "Doggy Style:" I beg, she rolls over.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.