People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.

People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.