Ken Robinson Quotes
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
-
I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
-
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
-
When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
-
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
-
The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
-
I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
-
We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
-
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
-
Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
-
I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
-
I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
-
California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
-
I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
-
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.
-
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
-
That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
-
I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.
-
Nothing good ever happens after midnight.
-
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
