Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

Your relationships will take you beyond the boundaries of your normal strength. Encouragement gives struggling people eyes to see the unseen Christ.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

Paint what you like and die happy

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

Any time you need an expert parental hand- (Zarek) I’ll find Jericho. (Astrid) Um, could you at least wait until that thing’s housebroken? (Jericho)

Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified."