Ken Robinson Quotes

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

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• I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Shows
  • Down
  • Favorite

• As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Experience
  • Presidential
  • Democrat

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Fight

• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Fall
  • Moving
  • Speak

• I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Team
  • Never
  • Left

• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Know
  • Heartbeat
  • Clumsy

• It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Right
  • Interest
  • Broadway

• I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Life
  • Free
  • Space

• I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mom
  • Computer
  • Tough

• It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Doubt

• It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice

• I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Listening

• Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Star

• Money is a hazard.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Money

• Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of dreams; dreams reveal that we all possess subconscious ability. Furthermore, our subconscious mind, as it is revealed through dreams, proves itself to be talented, artistic, insightful, perceptive and intelligent.

  

  Charles McPhee
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Intelligent

• You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Mind
  • Athlete