The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

We get educated out of creativity.

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

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

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