Finding Your Element Quotes

“Creo que fue la actriz y cómica estadounidense Phyllis Diller quien dijo que nos pasamos los tres primeros años de vida de nuestro hijo enseñándole a caminar y a hablar, y los siguientes doce años en la escuela diciéndole que se siente y se calle.”
― Ken Robinson, Encuentra tu elemento

“Instead of standing on the shore and convincing ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture onto its waters—just to see.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“No one needs to be a victim of their own biography.” Or, as Carl Jung puts it, “I am not what has happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” PRINCIPLE #3: LIFE IS ORGANIC In my experience, very few people in middle age or beyond correctly anticipated the lives they have actually led.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“To find your Element you have to get to know yourself better. You have to spend time with yourself, apart from other people’s opinions of you.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“African proverb, “Life is like eating an elephant; you need to do it one mouthful at a time.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“You dance as you walk through life. If you don’t dance, for heaven’s sake, you don’t lift up from this Earth.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“Our individual capacity for happiness is partly inherited. It is part of our biological makeup.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“La tierra tiene una antigüedad aproximada de cuatrocientos cincuenta millones de años, un lapso de tiempo prácticamente inconcebible.”
― Ken Robinson, Encuentra tu elemento

“For example, “the richest Americans, those earning more than $ 10 million annually, reported levels of personal happiness only slightly greater than the office staffs and blue-collar workers they employ.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“Dan Baker agrees: “The myth that money brings you happiness is one of the happiness traps,” he says. In a study of 792 well-off adults, “more than half reported that wealth didn’t bring them more happiness and half of those with assets greater than $ 10 million said that money brought more problems than it solved.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“Ironically, the so-called social media may also be adding their own pressures. Although they have far more connections than ever online, many young people feel they have fewer real friends they can turn to for actual company and comfort when they need it.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“Depression is becoming an increasingly serious problem. In the United Kingdom, for example, prescriptions for antidepressant drugs have risen by more than forty percent in the past four years. This is not a uniquely British problem. On the contrary, the World Health Organization predicts that by 2020 depression will be the second leading cause of death in the world, affecting thirty percent of all adults. Many experts believe that depression has become an epidemic. By some estimates, “clinical depression is ten times more likely to torment us than it did a century ago.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“According to one study, almost half of the adults in the United States have little enthusiasm for life and are not actively or productively engaged in the world. There are equally disturbing figures for other countries and regions of the world, from Europe to Asia.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“In Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness, Susan Smalley and Diana Winston argue that, “Learning to live mindfully does not mean living in a perfect world, but rather living a full and contented life in a world in which both joys and challenges are givens. Although mindfulness does not remove the ups and downs of life, it changes how experiences like losing a job, getting a divorce, struggling at home or at school, births, marriages, illnesses, death and dying influence you and how you influence the experience. . . . In other words, mindfulness changes your relationship to life.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“Being in your Element is about connecting with and dwelling in the positive feelings that express and fulfill your own spiritual energies. One way of discovering the roots of these feelings, and of finding your Element, is through the practices of mindfulness. These practices draw on the principles and techniques of meditation that I suggested in chapter one.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“Experiments document that while negative emotions narrow attention . . . positive emotions, especially joy, make thought patterns far more flexible, creative, integrative and efficient.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“PRINCIPLE #2: YOU CREATE YOUR OWN LIFE Whatever your history and circumstances, you should never feel locked in by what has happened to you up to now. It is often said that you cannot change the past but you can change the future. And so you can, because of your very nature as a human being.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“An organization with a staff that’s fully engaged is far more likely to succeed than one with a large portion of its workforce detached, cynical and uninspired.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“Resisting the stereotypes of intelligence in education and discovering your latent talents can change the course of your life in profound ways.”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

“We’re all shaped to some degree by our own biographies and cultures and it’s easy to believe that what’s happened before determines what has to come next. The American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson thought otherwise. “What lies behind us,” he wrote, “and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Finding your Element is about discovering what lies within you and, in doing so, transforming what lies before you. “Risk”
― Ken Robinson, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life