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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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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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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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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
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Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
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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 think about the world in all ways we experience it we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
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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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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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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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