People will surprise you. Several times a week I see or hear about something creative our associates have done. It's inspiring to see their ingenuity and pace.

Creative minds have the ability to imagine or invent something new by combining, changing or reapplying existing ideas.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.