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

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" We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. "

" You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them. "

" Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized. "

" If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital. "

" First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. "

" School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary. "

" You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. "

" Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them. "

" 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. "

" Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is. "

" Imagination is more important than knowledge. "

Albert Einstein

" Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. "

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

" You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible. "

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

" Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. "

" Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things? "

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

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

" Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. "

Albert Einstein

" We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now. "

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

" They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. "

Edgar Allan Poe

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

" When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. "

" The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. "

" The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. "

Albert Einstein