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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.

Ken Robinson

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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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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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
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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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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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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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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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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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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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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak when you’re present in the current moment when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing when you are fully alive.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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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 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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