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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Ken Robinson

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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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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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