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

• I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.

  

  Lenora Crichlow
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Innocent

• 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

• Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Names

• Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.

  

  Alex Shakar
  • Beauty
  • Cities
  • Part

• Wireless technology is creating entrepreneurship on a small scale that allows a single woman to set up a business in a small village or a single farmer or fisherman to access and disseminate market information in order to get the best price for their products.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wife

• Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Future
  • Present

• 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