Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.