Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

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

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.