If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

No one is materialistic by birth. It the loneliness of that person which makes him, love things that can never love him back.

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all." - Matthew Farrell

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

The world is still in deleveraging.

He said, 'Always. Always.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.