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“[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.”

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”

“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”

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Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.”

“The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.”

“Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”

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Book:How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.”

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Author:Alfie Kohn

“What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.”

“Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.”

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Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“There is a profound difference between information and meaning.”

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Author:Warren G. Bennis

“One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.”

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Author:Janet Erskine Stuart

“In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.”

“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.”

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Author:Daniel Yankelovich