Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Charlie waves me on, then leans an elbow on his chair. Propping his head up with a finger by his te

To be motivated by divine love is to see your promise land as a platform to share the love of God with others

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.

Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out.

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.