Some favorite quotes

Laurence Kaptain • arts leader

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."

Clay Shirky

When a field becomes too self referential and cut off from reality it runs the risk of becoming irrelevant.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Laurence Kaptain • arts leader

“One of the main barriers to turning knowledge into action is the tendency to treat talking about something as equivalent to actually doing something about it.”

The Knowing-Doing Gap, Robert Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer

Laurence Kaptain • arts leader

“Be very wary of judging people just on the basis of how smart they sound, and particularly on their ability to find problems or fault with ideas. These are dangerous people.

They are smart enough to stop things from happening, but not action oriented enough to find ways of overcoming the problems they have identified.”

The Knowing-Doing Gap, Robert Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer

Laurence Kaptain • arts leader

“Beware the calculations of the meek, who gambled nothing gave nothing, and could never receive enough.”

John Ciardi

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."

Sir Ken Robinson

Laurence Kaptain • arts leader