Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

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.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

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

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

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.