You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved yourself into.

Stephen R. Covey

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

Lou Gerstner

The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them, but we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.

Jim Coudal

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

Seymour Papert

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean, to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because, once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

What you see depends upon what you thought before you looked.

Myron Tribus

Education is not filling a bucket but ligthing a fire.

W. Butler Yeats

Yet because we don't understand systems, we act as though human error were the primary cause of our problems.

Peter Scholtes

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard

The top environmental problems are selfishness greed and apathy… and to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation – and we scientists don’t know how to do that.

Gus Speth

I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.

Thuli Madonsela

Als iets het aanleren waard is, is het de moeite waard om uit te zoeken of de instructie succesvol was. Was de instructie niet succesvol, dan is het de moeite waard om uit te zoeken hoe je die kunt verbeteren.

Robert F. Mager

Learning takes place through the active behavior of the student: it is what he does that he learns, not what the teacher does.

R.W. Tyler

I have only two problems with the 'Excellence Model' - content and method.

John Seddon

Als je gelukkig wil worden, moet je iets doen waar je gelukkig van wordt.

Johan Cruijff

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

Earl Nightingale

Its not our job to fix it or write reports, it is our  job to help you see it.

John Seddon

As Ackoff taught us, if you go wrong doing the right thing you will learn, whereas if you go wrong doing the wrong thing you won’t learn and you risk doing the wrong thing wronger.

John Seddon

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

Simon Sinek

Changing thinking is a normative process, changing norms, beliefs and assumptions. It is not a rational process.

John Seddon

A proposed solution that starts with If we just… is probably headed down the wrong path.

Esther Derby 

Digital learning does not mean learning on your phone, it means bringing learning to where employees are.

Josh Bersin

Hope is remembering the future in the present.

N.T. Wright

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Jim Rohn

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

Dee Hock.

People have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

Viktor Frankl

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

John Green

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet keep looking. Don't settle.

Steve Jobs

If you do not know where you come from, you do not know where you stand, if you do not know where you stand, you do not know where you go.

Chinees spreekwoord

Wat heeft het voor zin te rennen als je niet op de goede weg bent.

Duits gezegde

Voor elke complex probleem bestaat een simpele oplossing, welke verkeerd is.

George Bernard Shaw

De toekomst beïnvloedt het heden net zoveel als het verleden.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling.

Edgar H. Schein

Men hoeft de wereld niet te begrijpen, men moet alleen zijn plaats erin weten te vinden.

Albert Einstein

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.

La Rochefoucauld

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

Thomas J. Watson

Denken is interessanter dan weten, maar minder interessant dan kijken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

Miles Davis

The only way to overcome resistance is to reduce the learning anxiety by making the learner feel “psychologically safe”.

Edgar H. Schein

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Georges Bernanos

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.

Obi Wan Kenobi

Simpel solutions to complex problems are inherently attractive and almost always wrong.

Andrew Krepinevich

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Robert Anthony

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feyman

An expert is not someone that gives you the answer, it is someone that asks you the right question.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The more we learn the more we realise how little we know.

Buckminster Fuller

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.

W. Edwards Deming