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

• There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Clubs

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
  • Couple
  • Europe

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

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Original