Erfan > Erfan's Quotes

“من هرگز در حسرت بال پرندگان نخواهم بود. جذبه های جانم، از کتابی به کتاب دیگر و از صفحه ای به صفحه ی دیگر مرا به جاهای بسیار دورتر می برند.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast-food model of quality assurance when they should be adopting the Michelin model instead. The future for education is not in standardizing but in customizing; not in promoting groupthink and “deindividuation” but in cultivating the real depth and dynamism of human abilities of every sort.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element - How finding your passion changes everything

“Creative teams are dynamic.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element - How finding your passion changes everything

“Wiseman has identified four principles that characterize lucky people. Lucky people tend to maximize chance opportunities. They are especially adept at creating, noticing, and acting upon these opportunities when they arise. Second, they tend to be very effective at listening to their intuition, and do work (such as meditation) that is designed to boost their intuitive abilities. The third principle is that lucky people tend to expect to be lucky, creating a series of self‐fulfilling prophecies because they go into the world anticipating a positive outcome. Last, lucky people have an attitude that allows them to turn bad luck to good. They don’t allow ill fortune to overwhelm them, and they move quickly to take control of the situation when it isn’t going well for them.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element - How finding your passion changes everything

“They have discovered their Element—the place where the things you love to do and the things that you are good at come together. The”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Creative teams are dynamic. Diversity of talents is important, but it is not enough. Different ways of thinking can be an obstacle to creativity. Creative teams find ways of using their differences as strengths, not weaknesses.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Creativity is a step beyond imagination because it requires that you actually do something rather than lie around thinking about it.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“You can think of creativity as a conversation between what we’re trying to figure out and the media we are using.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“use the term the Element to describe the place where the things we love to do and the things we are good at come together.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“But it is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
The decision to play it safe, to take the path of least resistance, can seem irresistible, particularly if you have your own doubts and fears about the alternatives.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Often we need other people to help us recognize our real talents. Often we can help other people to discover theirs.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“What Einstein seemed to understand is that intellectual growth and creativity come through embracing the dynamic nature of intelligence. Growth comes through analogy, through seeing how things connect rather than only seeing how they might be different.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element - How finding your passion changes everything

“Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. When the conditions came, life returned to the heart of Death Valley.
Human beings and human communities are the same. We need the right conditions for growth, in our schools, businesses, and communities, and in our individual lives. If the conditions are right, people grown in synergy with the people around them and the environments they create. If the conditions are poor, people protect themselves and their anxieties from neighbors and the world. Some of the elements of our growth are inside us. They include the need to develop our unique natural aptitudes and personal passions. Finding and nurturing them is the surest way to ensure our growth and fulfillment a as individuals.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”
― Ken Robinson

“It's not whether you win or lose in life that's important but whether you play the game. Lose enough and eventually you will win. It's only a matter of time.”
― Joseph Sugarman, Advertising Secrets of the Written Word: The Ultimate Resource on How to Write Powerful Advertising Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters and Mail Order Entrepreneurs

“According to Diogenes Laertius, Stoic rhetoric identified five “virtues” of speech: 1. Correct grammar and good vocabulary 2. Clarity of expression, making the ideas easily understood 3. Conciseness, employing no more words than necessary 4. Appropriateness of style, suited to the subject matter and apparently also to the audience 5. Distinction, or artistic excellence, and the avoidance of vulgarity”
― Donald J. Robertson, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

“The true goal of life for Stoics isn’t to acquire as many external advantages as possible but to use whatever befalls us wisely, whether it be sickness or health, wealth or poverty, friends or enemies. The Stoic Sage, or wise man, needs nothing but uses everything well; the fool believes himself to “need” countless things, but he uses them all badly.”
― Donald J. Robertson, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

“Losers have goals. Winners have systems.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“But a theory is not like an airline or bus timetable. We are not interested simply in the accuracy of its predictions. A theory also serves as a base for thinking. It helps us to understand what is going on by enabling us to organize our thoughts. Faced with a choice between a theory which predicts well but gives us little insight into how the system works and one which gives us this insight but predicts badly, I would choose the latter, and I am inclined to think that most economists would do the same.”
― Ronald H. Coase, Essays on Economics and Economists