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

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

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

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

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.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.