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Our
way of managing and leading, rewarding and
judging people is totally out of tune
with the fact that we
are all individuals.
adapted from Howard Gartner |
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 |
Learning
is the best of all wealth; it is easy to carry, thieves cannot
steal it, the tyrants cannot seize it; neither water nor fire
can destroy it; and far from decreasing, it increases by giving.
Naladiyar |
I
never teach my pupils;
I only attempt to provide the conditions
in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein |
Leadership
is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management
says is possible.
Colin Powell |
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 |
The
quality of leadership, more than any other
single factor,
determines the success or failure of an organization.
Fred Fiedler |
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, if necessary, completely on their own.
John Lawhon |
You
can only lead others where you yourself are
willing to go.
Lachlan McLean |
All
our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci |
Personally,
I'm always ready to learn,
although I don't
always like being taught.
Winston Churchill |
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 |
Leadership
flows from the minds of followers more than from the titles
of leaders, more from the perception of willing
followers than from anointment.
Lane Secretan |
He
who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and acquiring new
knowledge may become a teacher of others.
Confucius |
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 |
Education
is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember that nothing
that is worth learning can be taught
Oscar Wilde |
If knowledge
can create problems,
it is not through ignorance that we can
solve them.
Isaac Asimov |
Leaders
must encourage their organizations to
dance to forms of music
yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis |
The
leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking
credit.
And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC |
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, 1513 |
I
am always doing that which I cannot do,
in order that I may learn how
to do it.
Pablo Picasso |
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 |
Knowledge
is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where
we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson |
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can
tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz |
Who
dares to teach must never cease to learn
John Cotton Dana |
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate
of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot
open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional
appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson |
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
knowledge worker needs one thing only: to learn how
to learn.
Peter F. Drucker. |
He
has not learned the lesson of life who does
not every day
surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
In
times of uncertainty the amount of our learning
needs to exceed the amount of our change.
Reg Revans |
Align people's passions with their priorities
and you'll achieve
performance.
Steve Brown |
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert Schuller |
