Creativity

History tells us that modern science evolved from the visual arts. Observational science started with the visual arts. Galileo's first publication was not on a scientific matter. He wrote a monograph on perspective, on shadow and light.

Talent is really the gift of love. Talent happens when you are in love with something and you devote your life to it, and it's your love of it that makes you want to keep doing it.

Never be so canny as to ignore the uncanny.

Our curiosity combined with our uncanny ability to find explanations defines us.

We are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Fantasizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.