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.

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.

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.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

Finding your bliss in true equality and great quality can only benefit others

It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.

One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.

As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

As a child I experiences everything in a childish way... I thought I was experiencing a kind of warmth and a kind of embracing love as a God.