You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.

People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

Love is the most powerful energy there is.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.