People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.