The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

Choose to live...then live through experiences!

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

Paris is one of the most incredible places to live. Once you get bitten by the city, you never leave.

Sometimes we spend our money on something we think is gonna be great, and the titles shall remain nameless, but they're just a little disappointing.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.