If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

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- The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
- Never solve a problem for someone, instead, help them figure out how to solve it on their own. Otherwise, you destroy their adaptive competence.
- One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.
- The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses.
- How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?
- Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea.
- When the real problem is not well identified, only by chance a solution may be created.
- If you want the world to take you seriously, be important. If you want to be important, solve problems.
- Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.
- Creative needs a purpose, and creativity needs a problem.
- There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy.
- The great problem-solvers are the ones who possess the right mind with positivity, critical thinking, creative thinking, and systems thinking.
- Boredom doesn’t exist where creativity lives.
- Photographs are like diamonds. Polish them well to make them priceless.
- We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
- Safe art may soothe us, but it will never transform us.
- Picture books are like song lyrics in that they have to tell a story within a few short minutes.
- Creativity isn’t finding something new. It is rearranging what you already know into a new mold.
- Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.