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

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

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.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

I just thank God I'm still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.