Ken Robinson Quotes

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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

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Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

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It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

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What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

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Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

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Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

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These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

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The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

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School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

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The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.

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The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

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If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

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In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

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One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

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We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.

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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think,

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