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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.

The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.