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.

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

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.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear.

The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.

The slow dance of synchronicity begins the moment you are born.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the myriad of other services resonate with the basic human urge to be social. The tools have changed, but human behaviour remains consistent.

A like may not necessarily mean real impact has been made

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

Im one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry arent behind us. Theyre actually ahead of us.