I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.