Ken Robinson Quotes

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

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• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Family
  • Hands
  • Capitalism

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Just

• Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Relationship

• I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Try
  • Week
  • Pressure

• Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• I love Jo Malone. I got the Orange Blossom scent as a gift many years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's very light, natural, sweet. It's there but not that obvious.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Love
  • Light
  • Sweet

• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Late

• Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.

  

  Bob Marley
  • History
  • Black

• Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Knowledge
  • Reading

• The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life

• Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Thoughts

• One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • War
  • Peace
  • Alone

• Obviously I'd love to see Demetrious Johnson, you know, 'Demetrious Johnson $500,000 payout baby,' absolutely.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Baby

• I would have never run for office if it wasn't for the fact that my biggest threat to my company was the federal government and the overreach of the EPA. They've gone too far, and it's time for them to be pulled back in.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Time

• What I do is very spiritual to me. I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

  

  Lynn Collins
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Journey

• Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

  

  Kenneth Anger
  • America

• I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.

  

  Megan Fox
  • High
  • Celebrity

• Good Lord, I went in for a check up the other day and the doctor said 'You need to lay off eggs.' I go 'Is my cholesterol bad?' He said 'No, your farts are killing everybody in this room.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• ...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Men
  • Farmer
  • Countryman

• Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

  

  George Eliot
  • Circumstances
  • Emotions
  • Conditions

• I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

  

  Mollie King
  • School
  • Gentleman

• You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Conditions
  • Farmer
  • Predict