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