Ken Robinson Quotes

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Ken Robinson

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• When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • True

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Government
  • Goal
  • Creating

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

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Stars

• I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • Wonderful
  • Read

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Name

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Friends
  • History
  • Problems

• If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

  

  Bob Goodlatte
  • Money
  • Business
  • Door

• Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Perception
  • Consciousness
  • Own Mind

• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • End
  • Fight
  • Development

• I'm real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Up
  • Real

• The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.

  

  David Petraeus
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Education