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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
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You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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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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Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
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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 answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.
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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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