You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Your solution is in the next person

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading.

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

Look behind you in gratitude.Look ahead of you in hope.Look beside you in caution.Look around you in faith.

Sometimes we have to meet people where they are, Ollie. Honor their desires, regardless of out own.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.