Ken Robinson Quotes

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

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.

Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.

From the day I got out of school, I was looking for an idea.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.

If I was president, I would definitely stop war, put more money toward health insurance and my community. Especially, last but not least, the most important one -education. I just think education comes before anything because in order for you to know about everything, you have to go to school, and you have to learn.

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.

I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform lives.

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.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

Now I'm taking some classes, I'm going to school for film, and I think I'm going to end up back in the industry in one capacity or another. I'm not sure where just yet. I kind of stepped away from it for a few years. I thought I was done with it. But I grew up in it. It's such a big part of my life.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.