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:

Finding your tribe can have transformative effects on your sense of identity and purpose.

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The Element:

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.

125

The Element:

…people often derive a large sense of who they are through affiliation with specific groups and tend to associate themselves closely with groups likely to boost their self-esteem.

127

The Element:

…issues of attitude are of paramount importance in finding your Element. A strong will to be yourself is an indomitable force.

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The Element:

Fear is perhaps the most common obstacle to finding your Element.

136

The Element:

…someone keeping you from the thing you love to do – or from even looking for it – can be a deep source of frustration.

137

The Element:

Doing something ‘for your own good’ is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

139

The Element:

The power of groups is that they validate the common interests of their members. The danger of groupthink is that it dulls their individual judgment.

146

The Element:

As we learn a language, accents, and ways of speaking, we also learn ways of thinking, feeling, and relating.

150

The Element:

…great social movements are those that are stimulated when the boundaries are broken.

152