Ken Robinson Quotes

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

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• I am turning into the person I knew I would.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Person
  • Turning

• I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Death
  • You
  • Imagine

• There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Future
  • George Bush
  • Entrust

• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Inspired
  • Write
  • Terrified

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Best

• Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Process

• We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Great
  • Know
  • Perfect

• 2006, I started 'WineLibrary TV.' To build 'WineLibrary TV,' I started using Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter in 2008.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Build
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

• It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Present

• I don't ever get too literal.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes

• While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • People
  • Communication

• Testing is overrated.

  

  Jeff Rich The Climax Blues Band

• I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

  

  David Shields
  • Struggle

• My job as the associate head coach was to make sure the head coach has everything he needs. That's my job. Whatever he needs me to do and whatever I see fit to do to help the team win.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Job
  • Help
  • Team

• I was the first attorney general to court to fight Obamacare - about 30 minutes after the president signed the bill.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli

• At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Speak
  • Original
  • Cognitive

• When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • American
  • Story
  • Original

• When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.

  

  Mike Scully
  • Repeat
  • Original
  • Napoleon

• Introspection with inference and meaning left out as much as possible becomes a dull taxonomic account of sensory events which, since they suggest almost no functional value for the organism, are peculiarly uninteresting to the American scientific temper.

  

  Edwin Boring
  • Value
  • Events
  • Temper

• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

  

  Ken Robinson
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