Ken Robinson Quotes

Creativity is as important as literacy.

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Know

• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • May
  • House

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Hell

• I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • House
  • Technology

• I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Career
  • Me
  • Amazing

• When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Important
  • Help
  • Guy

• It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • World
  • Important
  • Moving

• Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Up
  • Car
  • Son

• Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

  

  Noelle Stevenson
  • Kids
  • Get
  • Figure Out

• Creativity is as important as literacy.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Important
  • Creativity
  • Literacy