A Quote by Ken Robinson

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Ken Robinson

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Careers Children Fertile Imaginations Minds Risks School Sparkling Start Take Think Willingness

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Ken Robinson
English - Educator
Born: March 4, 1950

Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,' Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.

Richard Farson

There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.

Gloria Allred

I was in my 30s when I quit my job and ran for Congress. So often, we're told it's OK to take these big career leaps when we're in our 20s, but we cast such an unfavorable light on those who take big risks later on in their careers or when they start families. There's enormous pressure to have it all figured out.

Reshma Saujani

If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks.

Jonathan Anderson

The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.

Theo Paphitis

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

Biz Stone

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

George Edward Woodberry

When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

Albert Shanker

When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

Albert Shanker

We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

Harvey Mackay

I don't think I take risks. People think I do, but I don't. In fact, I think conventional-formula filmmakers take more risks than me.

Ram Gopal Varma

There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.

Robert F. Engle

...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.