Ken Robinson Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, People, Giving

• Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

  Ken Robinson

  Learning, Creativity, Ideas

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

• Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Events, Process

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

• To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

  Ken Robinson

  Teacher, Art, Educational

  "Why We Need to Reform Education Now". "Why We Need to Reform Education Now" by Ken Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

• Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Ken Robinson (2017). “Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

• Creativity is as important as literacy.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Entrepreneur, Important

  "The Destruction of Democracy and Creativity in Our Schools: Mission Accomplished" by Arnold Dodge, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.

• Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

• Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Interesting, Creative

• Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

  Ken Robinson

  Teaching, Creativity, Self Confidence

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.270, John Wiley & Sons

• Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Humans, Human Intelligence

  FaceBook post by SirKenRobinson from Jul 19, 2012

• The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

  Ken Robinson

  Believe, Teaching, Creativity

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.184, John Wiley & Sons

• All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

• I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

  "How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 3, 2014.

• Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Ideas, Different

• Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Imagination, Culture

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". TED and Reddit Interview, blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

• You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Creativity, Thinking

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.50, Penguin

• Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Innovation, Definitions

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

• Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Creative, Doe

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

• Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Imagination

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, School, Thinking

• Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Creative, Challenges

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

• Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.54, Penguin

• We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

• Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Learning, Creativity

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.131, Penguin

• Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Writing, Learning

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.43, Penguin

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