One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.