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These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

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Creativity, Rest Of Life, Differences

Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2015). “Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education”, p.66, Penguin

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To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

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Creativity, School, Thinking

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Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.

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Boat, Floats

"Ideas for modern living: passion" by Ken Robinson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.

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Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

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Creativity, Thinking, People

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To be creative you actually have to do something.

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Creative, Be Creative

Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.50, Penguin

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I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

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Motivational, Morning, Moving

Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.49, Penguin

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Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

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Heart, Diversity, Community

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It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

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Motivational, Powerful, Attitude

Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.111, Penguin UK

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Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

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Art, Motivation, Inspiration

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Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.

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Passion, People, Achievement

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Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Ken Robinson

Creativity, Humans, Human Intelligence

FaceBook post by SirKenRobinson from Jul 19, 2012

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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

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Creativity, Innovation, Definitions

Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

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Motivational, People, Interesting

Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.80, Penguin

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Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

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Imagination, Earth, Humans

Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.44, Penguin

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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.

Ken Robinson

Art, Jobs, Motivation

"How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 3, 2014.

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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

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Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".

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Heart, Kids, Home

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The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

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Commitment, Creative, Excellence

Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.84, Penguin

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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

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Communication, Organization, Littles

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Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

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Running, Business, Mistake

"How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 03, 2014.

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If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

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Mind, Important, Culture

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Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

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Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

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I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Ken Robinson

University Professors, Water, Achievement

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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

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Imagination, Consciousness, Humans

Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

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Being Yourself, Elements, Compulsion

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