Ken Robinson Quotes
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.
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I like stepping out of my comfort zone.
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I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
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I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
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The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
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Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.
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Woman is also the element of conflict.
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FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
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Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
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Fanaticism is such a blind stuff that it can never give you any idea as to what is reality. Because whatever you believe into, you build up your own ideas and everything onto it and it's like a fake palace built on a fake idea. And then you go on fighting. If God is one, if His love is one, then how can people who believe in God fight?
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I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.
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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
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The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.
