Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

Shh, listen, don’t be discouraged if you don’t win. It’s a learning process. You’ll get better with each try.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.

we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.