To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction

The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.

Being optimistic is the view looking for the best, it comes with the “never give up” attitude.

Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions.

Creativity flourishes in solitude.

Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.

The collective sensation is one’s perspective, experience, memory, imagination, and perception.

Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy.

Creativity is like the light, the reason we see the light because the “switch” is on and the connection is made

The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity.

Context is a chain of associations which stimulate creativity.

We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Over-the-counter ‪‎drug‬ ‪‎abuse‬ or addiction was a problem that I observed at Mauna Kea

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.