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At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Ideas are useless unless used.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.

Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.

Have patience, and endure

Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

Don't hire a dog, then bark yourself

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.