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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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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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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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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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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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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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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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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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I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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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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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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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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