“The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.”

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.

Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.

It’s easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you’re meant to learn.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter.