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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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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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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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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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We think about the world in all ways we experience it we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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