265 Quotes by Ken Robinson

I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.

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.

The task of education is not to teach subjects: it is to teach students.

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.

I don’t think that anything I’ve done in my life would have been possible without my mother.

I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

The word amateur derives from the Latin word amator, which means lover, devoted friend, or someone who is in avid pursuit of an objective. In the original sense, an amateur is someone who does something for the love of it.

If you want to change the world,” he said, “who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

A person’s native tongue influences the way he or she perceives music. The same succession of notes may sound different depending on the language the listener learned growing up.”12 As evidence, speakers of tonal languages including Mandarin are more likely than Westerners to have perfect pitch. In one study, 92 percent of Mandarin speakers who began the music lessons at or before the age of five had perfect pitch compared to 8 percent of English speakers with comparable music training.