The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

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