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If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.
Ken Robinson
Finance
Leadership
You
Creative
Depend
Engineering
Think
Everywhere
Running
Hospital
Ideas
Advertising
Principles
Whether
Ingenuity
Companies
Company
Apply
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
Ken Robinson
Life
You
Yourself
Important
Too
Fathom
Possible
Inside
More
Uncertainty
Economic
Recreate
Lead
Talents
Look
Make
Sort
Passions
Times
Than
Want
Create
Really
Your
Deep
Deep Inside
Ever
Downturn
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
Ken Robinson
Risks
School
Think
Minds
Willingness
Take
Fertile
Children
Sparkling
Start
Imaginations
Careers
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Ken Robinson
Music
You
Creative
Science
Dance
Engineering
Painting
Philosophy
Math
Anything
Much
While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Home
You
Travel
Word
Faster
Only
Take
Written
Absorb
Written Word
Spoken
Spoken Word
Reader
Hand
Convenience
While
Your
Wholly
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Saying
Sometimes
Think
Paper
Object
Something
Prevent
Indiscreet
True
Ambassador
Anything
Function
Briefing
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Broadcaster
Must
Reader
Fit
Fits
Listener
While
Newspaper
Program
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Live
Televised
Bowl
Goldfish
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Hallmark
Jargon
Profession
Incomprehensible
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
Larry J. Sabato
Life
Daily
Change
Respect
Constitution
Rights
Brilliant
Citizen
Separation
Design
Every
Numerous
Bits
Archaic
Constitutional
Constructive
Remains
Overall
Powers
Sound
Affect
Provisions
Republic
Bill
Bill Of Rights
Inhibit
Daily Life
Adaptation
I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Justice
Emotions
Action
States
Tried
Clear
Always
Stages
Aspirations
Reasoning
It seems obvious that moral stages must primarily be the products of the child's interaction with others rather than the direct unfolding of biological or neurological structures.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Others
Moral
Must
Direct
Seems
Rather
Structures
Neurological
Primarily
Obvious
Than
Child
Interaction
Unfolding
Stages
Products
Biological
The unit of effectiveness of education is not the individual but the group. An individual's moral values are primarily important for society as they contribute to a moral social climate, not as they induce particular pieces of behavior.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Education
Behavior
Values
Important
Group
Society
Moral
Moral Values
Individual
Primarily
Induce
Particular
Pieces
Climate
Effectiveness
Contribute
Social
Unit
Piaget is correct in assuming a culturally universal age development of a sense of justice, involving progressive concern for the needs and feelings of others and elaborated conceptions of reciprocity and equality.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Needs
Justice
Age
Equality
Feelings
Sense
Assuming
Others
Progressive
Correct
Development
Involving
Concern
Universal
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Time
History
First
Radical
Increase
Morality
Seems
Proportion
Reaching
Principled
First Time
Human
Human History
Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Great
Integrity
Honesty
Great Deal
Be True
Goodness
Virtues
Definitions
Disagreement
True
Over
Also
Although
Deal
May
Controversy
Little
Notion
Teaching
Actual
Consensus
Vague
In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Justice
Learning
Live
Society
Aid
Our
Feel
Understand
Authority
Should
Derive
Derives
The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles and to encounter other perspectives.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Experience
Opportunity
Other
Moral
Seem
Variety
Take
Main
Development
Encounter
Roles
Social
Perspectives
Amount
Number
If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Life
Beautiful
Good
Reality
Big
Own
See
Adolescent
Determined
My Own
True
Like
Ideas
Which
Realist
Held
Noun
Many
Platonic
Believed
If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear and to mark where we must go than to ignore it.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Great
Better
Mark
Our
Say
Weak
Must
About
Seems
Crude
Clear
Make
Go
Than
Human
Where
Experiences
Psychology
Ignore
It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Logical
Light
Evolutionary
Some
Only
Structures
Fact
Adult
Wiring
Most
Particularly
Reached
Mature
View
Succession
Whole
Functional
Plausible
Hardly
Innate
Program
The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of sequential stage movement.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Better
Stage
Philosophically
Claim
Higher
Part
Movement
Psychological
Explanation
Theoretical
Necessary
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
Lawrence Lessig
Time
Needs
Character
Defense
Marked
About
Argued
Taken
Taken For Granted
Ideas
Era
Much
Granted
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
Lawrence Lessig
People
Political
Challenge
Doubt
Believe
Way
Find
About
True
Wonder
Times
Task
Get
Sow
Again
Social
Activists
Hardest
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.
Lawrence Lessig
Culture
Seen
Too
Assure
Our
Way
System
Distribution
Constitutional
Development
Limits
Influence
Requires
Copyright
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
Lawrence Lessig
Government
Will
Paradise
Gone
Other
Take
Disappears
Governments
Place
Interests
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