Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

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.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.