Best Learning Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 40

“Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.”

People Jobs Interesting Knowledge Learning Conversation Management Workers Defining Knowledge Workers Interesting Conversation

Book:The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

“You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.”

Two Knowledge Learning Ears Management Manage

Author:Peter Drucker

“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 younger people.”

People Thinking Social Knowledge Learning Management Legs Appeals Social Network

Author:Steve Ballmer

“The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.”

Important Knowledge Learning Theory Bears Management Painful Alternatives Important Questions Envisioning

Author:J. D. Trout

“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.”

People World Able Understanding Knowledge Learning Unique Gains Connections Management True Understanding

Author:Peter Senge

“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.”

People Problem Together Asks Knowledge Learning Conversation Normal Management Fundamentals Debate Stale

Author:Michael E. Szymanczyk

“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 more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.”

World Needs Doe Knowledge Learning Issues Plans Promise Projects Management Impact Definitions Planning Engagement Project Management

Author:Peter Block

“The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.”

Way Ideas Helping Challenges Knowledge Learning Management

Author:Anthony de Mello

“To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.”

Mean Knowledge Learning Willing Return Promise Management Committed Exception

Author:Peter Block

“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 at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.”

People Want Knowledge Learning Heard Worst Advice Conversation Claims Management Dominance Unfriendly

Author:Peter Block

“We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.”

Work Knowledge Learning Relationship Communication Connections Management Consultants Personal Connection

Author:Peter Block

“In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.”

Knowledge Economy Learning Management Manage Managers Volunteer

Author:Peter Drucker

“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 are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Past Class Knowledge Learning Objects He Man Needed Management Contrary Developing Great Men Systematic First Class

Book:The Principles of Scientific Management

Source: The Principles of Scientific Management

“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 is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.”

Source: Nicomachean Ethics (Second Edition)

“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 surround him.”

Men Ideas Accepting Knowledge Learning Influence Events Rivers Management Mere Refuse Surround Unfolding Flotsam

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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 water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.”

War Action Difficult Water Natural Results Effort Knowledge Learning Achieve Movement Walking Elements Normal Management Simplest Moderates

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.”

Song Knowledge Learning Bird Management

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.”

Values Levels Knowledge Learning Taught Understood Management Evolve Interaction True Value Tacit

Author:Dave Snowden

“I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.”

Years Long Has Beens Knowledge Learning Fit Management Guru Headlines Charlatans

Author:Peter Drucker

“Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.”

People Culture Effort Knowledge Practice Learning Management Technique Corporate Again And Again Innovative

Author:Peter Senge

“People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.”

People Want Looks Knowledge Forever Learning Ready Waste Management Arguing Something New Wasting Time Don't Waste Time

Book:Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Source: Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

“Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.”

Has Beens Said Use Song Girl Left Knowledge Learning Management Denied

Author:Al Stewart

“Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

“Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.”

“We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.”

People Way Needs Giving Trying Action Knowledge Learning Advice Tomorrow Increase Management Obvious Yesterday Helpful Advise Likelihood Recommendations

Author:Peter Block

“An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.”

Humans Born Results Knowledge Learning Conversation Commitment Management Determined

Author:Fernando Flores

“The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.”

People Way Knowledge Learning Groups Tasks Management

Author:Peter Block

“If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.”

Ifs Whole Together Turns Social Space Knowledge Technology Learning Information Design Management Milieu

Author:John Seely Brown

“A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.”

Needs Process Leader Knowledge Creative Learning Diversity Management These Days Mutual Host Creative Process Viewpoints

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“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 on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.”

“Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”

Ifs World Giving Stories Wealth Knowledge Learning Share Talent Divine Management

Author:Isabel Allende

“In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.”

World Reality Happens Can Do Knowledge Learning Activity Shapes Skills Management Active Planning New World Expertise Participants

Book:Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“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 where the shift in the world becomes possible.”

Thinking World Doe Knowledge Learning Conditions Management Changing The World Shifting

Author:Peter Block

“Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.”

Ifs Mean Today Individual Voice Decision Knowledge Learning Demand Management

Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.”

Knowledge Learning Students Management Notes Passing Passings Lectures Transfers Lecturer Passing Through

Author:Eric Mazur

“While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.”

Knowledge Learning Understood Management Rely Possessed Rooted Unthinkable Explicit Tacit

Author:Michael Polanyi

“When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?”

Way Made Knowledge Technology Learning Treats Management Breakthrough

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'”

Situation Leader Knowledge Learning Progress Tree Management Busy Producers Managers Climbs Efficient Shut Up Jungle Surveys

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.”

Knowledge Learning Teacher Fit Confucianism

Author:Confucius

“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.”

Thinking Knowledge Learning Study Dangerous Waste Confucianism

Author:Confucius

“The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.”

Men World Needs Book Hands Today Young Time Worry Learning Combination Young Man World Today Getting Along

Author:William S. Knudsen

“Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.”

Knows Time Learning Journey Ready Woods Now And Then

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.”

Should Time Loses Learning Lessons Sight Alternatives Drs Holmes Watson Dr Watson

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.”

Firsts Littles Home Time Realizing Poor Learning Dangerous Danger Students First Time Cards Reports Dangerous Things Report Cards

Author:Mark Twain

“PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.”

Mind Sometimes Feelings Learning Environment Fashion Creatures Clean Following Sentiments Prosperous Solemn Philistines

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.”

Ideas Success Learning Successful Training Orators Media Training

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.”

Use Science Learning

Author:Richard Hamming

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

Life Inspiring Education Learning Teacher Educational Preparation Insightful Schooling Educator Education System Schooled Educational System Teaching Children Great Education College Education Teaching And Learning Education And Teachers Schools And Education Life Learning School Education Great Educational College Life Teaching Education Children Learning Inspirational Education Knowledge Education Lifelong Learning Best Education Children Education Students And Education Student Learning Children And Education Inspirational Educational Value Of Education Education For All Inspiring Education Importance Of Education Love Of Learning Related To Education First Day Of School What Is Education Inspirational Student Inspiring Educational Motivational Education Learned Person Investment In Education Educational Change Inspirational School English Education Back To College Life Teaching Culture And Education

Author:John Dewey

“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”

Process Education Learning Future Educational Preparation My Future Schooling Preparation For The Future

Book:The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays

Source: The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933

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