The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

Money chases good ideas

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours, ' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

We are changing all the time and this never changes.It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.

Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?

The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.

The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.