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

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.

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.

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.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.