Ken Robinson Quotes

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.

A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

Help People Reach Their Full Potential Catch Them Doing Something Right

My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says in the film, I get touched up thinking about it, no one can give you a career. You have to have that inner drive. She wants it, but she doesn't know how to go for it, she's too shy. To see her perform and come on stage and feel comfortable, you know, she has talent - that was very touching, very moving, for me. She has a really beautiful sound and voice. She's a young girl still, 26, and innocent. She was kind of sheltered.

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.