Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their edge, or a performer who is a stranger may be asked to "sit in" on a set.

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

Curiosity-inspired questions bring clarity to your heart and help you see the pathway you're meant to travel.

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

I only watch TV when I go to hotels.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.

Treat each class as if it were your first.