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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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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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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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Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of 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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Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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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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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.
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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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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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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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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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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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School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
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