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Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

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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
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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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 gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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Human resources are like natural resources they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.
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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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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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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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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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