"In the heat of the moment, it can be all too easy to generate solutions that take on a life of their own, without reference to the core values of the people developing them or those expected to implement them."

"Preliminary ideas are often weak and impure, and need to be driven through a forge in order to become powerful, workable solutions."

"Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so."

"Even though you may have started out saying you wanted imaginative, novel ideas, the tendency to drift back into the conventional is powerful."

"If you let it, your mind will celebrate new stimuli by automatically making dozens of unexpected connections for you. If you pay attention to them, you may discover the answer you've been looking for."

"The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken."

"When you try to generate ideas, think of yourself as a sales person knocking on a whole subdivision of doors. Some won't open at all, some will open a suspicious crack, and some will slam in your face. But the more doors you knock on, the greater your chances of being invited in."

"In my experience one of the most common causes for programs, products, and change initiatives that don't work is that the wrong question has been asked."

"As soon as you establish concrete intention, you begin to notice all kinds of things in your world that relate to that intention. Ideas and opportunities seem to appear from nowhere, almost as though by magic."

"Giving ourselves permission to imagine allows us to access a huge resource of cognitive capacity that we often ignore."

"Unless a potential future incorporates a powerful emotional pull, it will have great difficulty overcoming the gravitational pull of the past."

"No matter how dysfunctional the present, no matter how sensible the reasons for change, most people and organizations would rather wring out the old than ring in the new."

"But as important as it is to see what's going on, it's unlikely that merely understanding the situation will do much to improve it. If you're interested in change, you need to develop a sense of possibility."

"One of the major barriers to productive thinking is the almost compulsive drive in most business organizations to be right."

"If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in the first place."

"I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?"

"Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around..."

"It all comes down to nothing..."

"I don't understand at best, I cannot speak for all the rest. But you may find a lifetime's passed you by. Every dog has its day, every day has its way Of being forgotten."

"Turns out not where, but who you're with, that really matters."

"See you and me, have a better time than most can dream. Have it better than the best, so we can pull on through. Whatever tears at us... whatever holds us down, And if nothing can be done, well make the best of whats around."

"Every day things change, but basically they stay the same."

"You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you."

"I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you."

"If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him."

"Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down."

"So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely."

"Satellite headlines read Someone's secrets you've seen. Eyes and ears have been Satellite dish in my yard. Tell me more, tell me more. Who's the king of your Satellite Castle?"

"So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die."

"Candyman tempting the thoughts of a Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss Program cutting the corners. Loose end, loose end, cut, cut. On the fence, could not to offend. Cut, cut, cut, cut."

"Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die."

"He wakes up in the morning Does his teeth, bite to eat and he's rolling Never changes a thing. The week ends the week begins She thinks, we look at each other Wondering what the other is thinking But we never say a thing These crimes between us grow deeper."

"I'm way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney."

"That's the magic of this band: shooting from the hip. The lights have to follow our cues, because we're not going to follow their cues. We're not going to stick to a song the way it's supposed to be. Everything is up to us. That's music to me. That's American music. We're an American band."

"Being a physicist, my father was a great believer in progress, but he also loved nature. He was a photographer, and outside of taking the occasional family photographs, all he did was photograph nature. He loved birds. That meant a lot to me growing up. Healthy progress also means we have to be concerned for the environment. That may have something to do with what I believe about farming."

"There's often a lot of stupid ideas like "you all dress as fruits and pretend you're selling underpants" or "we'll put you on a bed of nails and drive a truck over the top and photograph you" for the cover."

"Our good friend LeRoi Moore passed on and gave up his ghost today, and we will miss him forever."

"Oh! We already, we done already done it, done it, dammit! I could you know, like, sing a thing, and then not sing it for a little while, and then sing it again... and people would be like, "Why'd he sing that again?""

"And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes."

"Funny the way it is, if you think about it. Somebody's going hungry, someone else is eating out. Funny the way it is, not right or wrong. Somebody's heart is broken, it becomes your favorite song."

"If I go before I’m old, Oh brother of mine please don’t forget me if I go. Bartender please, fill my glass for me? With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free, after three days in the ground."

"Excuse me please one more drink. Could make it strong cause I don’t need to think She broke my heart, my Grace is gone. One more drink and I’ll move on. One more drink and I’ll be gone."

"There’s an emptiness inside her And she’d do anything to fill it in. And though it’s red blood bleeding from her now, It’s more like cold blue ice in her heart. She feels like kicking out all the windows, And setting fire to this life. She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright, But all the colors mix together - to grey."

"Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything."

"She prays to God most every night And though she swears he doesn't listen there's a little hope in her he might."

"Move into kiss those sweet sugar lips, baby looks just like love."

"You know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her."

"A rolling stone, that gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff."

"Don't you know when you give life, then you become what you are?"