Book Titles

The Element
How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

By Ken Robinson

Year Published: 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0670020478
Categories: Change, Passion, Purpose

59 Quotes Found

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The Element:

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

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The Element:

Being in our Element depends on finding our own distinctive talents and passions.

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The Element:

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement to teaching and the status of great teachers.

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The Element:

…most people have a very limited conception of their own natural capacities.

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The Element:

…when they are very young, kids aren’t particularly worried about being wrong.

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The Element:

…if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

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Education… is stifling the individual talents and ability of too many students and killing their motivation to learn.

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The Element:

The Element is the meeting point between your natural aptitude and personal passion.

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The Element:

When people are in their Element, they connect with something fundamental to their sense of identity, purpose, and well-being.

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The Element:

Finding and developing our creative strengths is an essential part of becoming who we really are.

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