Ken Robinson Quotes

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Ken Robinson

• People
• Believe
• Confidence
• Creativity
• Field
• Nurture

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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
  • World
  • Dream
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• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
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• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
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• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
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• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
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• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
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• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
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• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
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• A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
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• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Freak
  • Geek
  • Freakish

• Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
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  • Reflect

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

  

  Barry Eisler
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  • Communication
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• I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
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• I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too.

  

  Jessy Schram
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• Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Virtue
  • Precise

• I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • College
  • Band
  • Guitar

• In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • May
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• The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Confidence