Ken Robinson Short Quotes

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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

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

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

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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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

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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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Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

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

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

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For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.

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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

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It is my contention that Creativity is as important today in Education as Literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

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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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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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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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We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness.

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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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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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Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

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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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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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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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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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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 in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

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We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education. And it's impoverishing our spirits and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

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