|
People cannot learn by having information pressed into their
brains.
Knowledge has to be sucked into the brain, not pushed in.
First, one must create a state of mind that craves knowledge,
interest and wonder.
You can only teach by creating an urge to learn.
Victor Weisskopf Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people
is
totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.
Howard
Gartner The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.
The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that
which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
We
don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais
Nin
In times of change, learners inherit the earth,
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal
with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate,
and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully,
in value.
Louis L'Amour You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz How well you communicate is determined not by how well
you say things
but by how well you are understood.
Andrew S. Grove Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping
from the known to the unknown.
George Shinn
People do not manage knowledge; knowledge manages people.
Alvin Toffler
The training is forgotten, but the binder will last forever,
a living monument to temporary knowledge.
Dilbert There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more
doubtful of success,
nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of
things.
For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order.
This luke-warmness arises partly from fear of their adversaries,
who have the law in their favor; and partly from the incredulity
of mankind,
who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had
actual experience of it.
Machiavelli “The Prince” Ignorant people are sure of the causes of everything.
James Thorpe
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings
are created by the activities of the mind.
Buddha
Insanity is doing things the way they have always been
done and expecting the results to be different.
Theodore Eischeid
When one teaches, two learn.
Robert Half
Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you
see things right.
Blaine Lee Always listen to the experts. They will tell you what
can't be done, and why.
Then do it.
Robert A. Heinlein
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons,
which they have discovered,
than by those which have come from the mind of others.
Pascal If knowledge can create problems, it is not through
ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization,
it is those who have achieved something and
want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging
things up.
Charles Sorenson
A knowledge worker needs one thing only: to learn how
to learn.
Peter F. Drucker Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18 To create better health in a living system, connect
it to more of itself.
Meg Wheatley Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not
so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged,
so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our
own thoughts,
is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly
and repeatedly thought over.
Arthur Shopenhauer
Everyone hears only what he understands.
Goethe The most important thing that a commander can do is
to see the ship from the eyes of the crew.
Commander D. Michael Abrashoff
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others;
we can only be stimulated.
We must develop our own knowledge.
Charles T. Tart Learning occurs in the mind, independent of time and
place.
Plato Go to the people, learn from them
Start with what they know, build on what they have
But the best of leaders, when their task is accomplished, when
their work is done.
The people will remark: "We have done it ourselves."
2,000-Year-Old Chinese Poem
Most of the important experiences that truly educate
cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the
most intelligent;
it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin A great difference between winners and losers is their
attitude to what they need to know.
Losers feel it's someone else's job to teach them everything
they need to know.
Winners are determined to learn, and will seek out the best
possible training, completely on their own.
John Lawhon We have met the enemy and he is us.
Pogo If you think you are too small to make a difference,
try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
African Proverb
All of life is learning; therefore education can never end.
Eduard Lindemann
People do not attract that which they want, but that
which they are.
James Allen
What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters
when compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency
in planning it,
or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander Hamilton As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich,
so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
All big things in this world are done by people who are naive
and have an idea that is obviously impossible.
Dr. Frank Richards
One of the difficulties in bringing about change in
an organization
is that you must do so through the persons who have been most
successful in that organization,
no matter how faulty the system or organization is.
To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations,
because look who was selected by it and look who succeeded most
in it.
Yet these are the very people through whom we must bring about
improvements.
George Washington Tell me and I will forget;
Show me and I may remember;
Involve me and I will understand.
Chinese Proverb Man can learn nothing except by going from the known
to the unknown.
Claude Bernard
We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses,
but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.
Peter Drucker
When
you know a thing to recognize that you know it; and when you
do not,
to know that you do not know, - that is knowledge.
Confucius There can be no knowledge without emotion.
We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force,
it is not ours.
To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of
the soul.
Arnold Bennett
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Anon If you want to know your past - look into your
present conditions.
If you want to know your future - look into your present actions.
Buddhist Saying Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not
dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time
we were beginning to form up into teams, we were reorganized.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation
by reorganizing,
and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion
of progress
while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC. Or Petronius Satyricon,
First Century AD
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one
can take it away from him.
An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin The empires of the future are the empires of the
mind.
Sir Winston Churchill
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
The assets of most businesses walk out of the door at the end
of each day.
The challenge to management is to create an environment
which will motivate them to want to return the next day.
Lynn Yates
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
Sir Benjamin Disraeli
Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important
as the decisions about people,
because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.
Peter F. Drucker
What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What
I do, I understand.
Confucius, 451 BC I don't divide the world into the weak and the
strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it
or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.
Benjamin Barber
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay Knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon He who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and
acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others.
Confucius
No man can reveal to you aught
but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your
knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his
followers,
gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of
his wisdom,
but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
Kahil Gibron The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple
and effective one:
be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
A painting is never finished; it simply stops in interesting
places.
Paul Gardner
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
Plutarch
People don't care how much you know until they know how much
you care.
Anon
All wish to know, but none want to pay the price.
Juvenal
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
The only real security that a man will have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
One must learn by doing the thing.
For though you think you know it, you have no certainty until
you try.
Sophocles (BC 495-406)
The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing,
the less time you have to do anything.
Stability is achieved when you spend all of your time reporting
on the nothing you are doing.
COHN'S LAW
Cheshire-Puss, would you tell me please, which way I ought to
go from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the
Cat.
I don't much care where, said Alice.
Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.
Alice in Wonderland
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight
but has no vision.
Helen Keller The greatest problem in communication is the illusion
that it has been accomplished.
Daniel W. Davenport There is nothing which rots morale more quickly
and more completely
than poor communication and indecisiveness
the feeling that those in authority do not know their own minds.
Lyndall F. Urwick, 1956 Harvard Business Review Use what talent you possess: the woods would be
very silent
if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory
or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight
you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi Things which matter most must never be at the
mercy of things which matter least.
Goethe |
