Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.

When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.

Anyone can notice wrong answers. It takes the creative person to notice the wrong questions.

Most think as an OR. This OR that. The most successful among us think as an AND. This AND that.

When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re resigning them to average.

Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.

We can no longer rely on the rules of the past to win.

You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

A winner makes mistakes. A loser blames others for them.

Sacred-thoughts flashes in your mind at sacred-time. If you don’t write it immediately, it will be forgotten.

I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.

I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.