Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can't always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create...

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Our ability to solve problems is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

Here's how I learned to improvise: I played some music in the studio and I started to move. It sounds obvious, but I wonder how many people, whatever their medium, appreciate the gift of...

That tingle in the brain is called a word. It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.

Physicists have yet to find anything capable of exceeding our known speed of light. The Tao cannot be named, and so I say there is one thing that out - paces all things: we call it "thought." I can...

I Create. I don't "Need". Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.

The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active...

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they...

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company...

Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.

When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till...

How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist's couch or even the lovers' bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the...

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people's children in their body for money.

You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

You will have the grace of writing, when you boldly begin to write your first sentences.

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

Always think in circles to get your ideas around

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

Find a right and a beautiful idea

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.