Ken Robinson Quotes

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time is to find ways to tap into every human's creativity.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

All you can do is learn the skills of movies. Neither colleges nor anyone else can teach you creativity. They can teach you abilities to work with - you know how to use the gifts you've been born with.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.