Money chases good ideas

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours, ' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

You must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies.

Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.

I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it.

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

I just got called Nigel.

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

It's been so long since you last saw each other. She could at least smile.

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.