Ken Robinson Quotes

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

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• The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Album
  • Unforgettable
  • Nat King Cole

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Magic
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I understand how the economy actually works.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Understand
  • Economy
  • How

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • People
  • Good
  • Dance

• I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Mistake

• In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • World
  • Education

• If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Believe
  • Moving
  • Mountain

• There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Money
  • Heaven
  • Suffering

• When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn."

  

  W. Earl Brown
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Needs

• Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Dynamic