If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.