Ken Robinson Quotes

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

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

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

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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.

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

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.

Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas.

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

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

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 failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

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.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

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

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

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

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail