Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.

Self-command is the main discipline.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

The comfort zone is a great enemy to creativity.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse.'

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.

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

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.