True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

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.

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.

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

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

See the opportunity in the misstep.

I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives.

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.