Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Robinson

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

It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

Ken Robinson

Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.

Ken Robinson

I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

Ken Robinson

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

Ken Robinson

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Ken Robinson

One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

Ken Robinson

One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

Margaret Thatcher

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

Margaret Thatcher

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?

Margaret Thatcher

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Mark Twain

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Mark Twain

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Mark Twain

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Mark Twain

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Mark Twain

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Mark Twain

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Mark Twain

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Mark Twain

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Paul Gallico

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

Lily Cole

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

Lillian Hellman

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

Lev Yilmaz

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Larry Page

Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.