Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.