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

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

In January 2004, the number of unemployed American college graduates actually exceeded the number of unemployed high school dropouts.

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity.

We're reducing the number of high-stakes tests from fifteen to five.

The impossible yesterday is routine today. Wait until tomorrow.

I believe profoundly that we don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

All kids have tremendous talents - and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.

When people are in their Element, they connect with something fundamental to their sense of identity, purpose, and well-being.

Our ideas can enslave or liberate us.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat ...

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

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

We build our own cultures not only on the achievements of those that have come before but on their ruins.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?

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

Now, more than ever, human communities depend on a diversity of talents; not on a singular conception of ability.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

The reason that neither he nor I could predict my life, any more than you can predict yours, is that life is not linear; it is organic.

Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

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.

The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow.

You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it;

Wiseman has identified four principles that characterize lucky people. Lucky people tend to maximize chance opportunities.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

What we think of ourselves and of the world makes us who we are and what we can be.

The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability

But it also taught me that it is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment, the fear we internalize.

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

If he'd believed at any point along this journey that he had to follow a straight path in his career, he never would have found his true calling.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

Young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up

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

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

The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.

Educating children by age group assumes that the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture.

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

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)

I don't think that anything I've done in my life would have been possible without my mother.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Creativity is as important as literacy

The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system.

The first boy said, "I bring you gold." The second boy said, "I bring you myrrh." The third boy said, "Frank sent this.

For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

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

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next.

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

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

Public education puts relentless pressure on its students to conform.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools. Too many think they're not good at anything.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

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

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

Learning in and about the arts is essential to intellectual development.

We get educated out of creativity.

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

What people contribute to the world around them has everything to do with how they engage with the world within them.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

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

A strong will to be yourself is an indomitable force.

Expert teachers fulfill four main roles: they engage, enable, expect, and empower. ENGAGE

The task of education is not to teach subjects: it is to teach students.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be.