Ken Robinson Quotes

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

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

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

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.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

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

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

Always make new mistakes.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.