You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.