The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

Liars corrupt knowledge, and fools pervert wisdom, but the wise hallow both.Knowledge holds the truth.

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.

There is nothing more important in life than love.

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.