To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

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.

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

Egalitarianism trumps elitism. Only a selfish fool will tell you otherwise

We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

Falsehoods border on truths.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.