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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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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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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.
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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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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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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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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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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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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
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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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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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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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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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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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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.
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