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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
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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.
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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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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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