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Learning Quotes by Peter Block
- Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
- To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning-…
- Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth…
- 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…
- To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.
- 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…
- We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
- We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations,…
- The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.
- Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls…
- The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Sometimes I push too far, and say the worst possible things... But why would I want to be hurt again? trust is… — Unknown Author
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius