Ken Robinson Quotes
Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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Certain struggles never end.
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I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
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When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
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I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.
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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
