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

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

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

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

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 the process of having original ideas that have value

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.