There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.

I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.Kids just have an easier time with words.

How a person looks at life is a pristine example of how that person is going to live life.

Love is the soul's symphony.

The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!