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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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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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Human resources are like natural resources they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.
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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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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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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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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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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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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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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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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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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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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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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Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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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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