Learning Quotes
6496 quotes by 3665 authors
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Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child
— Charles Handy
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Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers…
— Ellen Langer
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Problems only exist in the human mind.
— Anthony de Mello
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The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL…
— Peter Drucker
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Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of…
— David Weinberger
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You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
— Peter Drucker
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I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to…
— Steve Ballmer
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The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
— J. D. Trout
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Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.
— Peter Senge
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Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.
— Michael E. Szymanczyk
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The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have…
— Peter Block
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The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas.
— Anthony de Mello
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To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.
— Peter Block
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Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice…
— Peter Block
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We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
— Peter Block
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In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
— Peter Drucker
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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men…
— Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason…
— Aristotle
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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