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You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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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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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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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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