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

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

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

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

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