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Creativity Quotes by Ken Robinson

52 Creativity quotes by Ken Robinson

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In a world where jobs change, creativity becomes essential for personal security. The quotes stress that curiosity needs a supportive environment and that true creativity is doing something, not just dreaming. They also warn that being ready to be wrong is a key step toward original ideas.

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Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

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To be creative you actually have to do something.

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Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

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“Creative teams are dynamic.”

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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

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Creativity is as important as literacy

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You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

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Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

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Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

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Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

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“You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it;”

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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

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To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think…

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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

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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.…

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In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It…

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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have…

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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…

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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in…

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“Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.”

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“If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system…

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“What Einstein seemed to understand is that intellectual growth and creativity come through embracing the dynamic nature of intelligence. Growth comes through…

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To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education…

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To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education…

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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as…

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We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically,…

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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a…

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“Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department,…

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It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned…

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We get educated out of creativity.

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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a…

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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing…

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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

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“We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)”

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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

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