Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.

Creativity is the production of meaning by synthesis.

Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.