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All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning of our community depends on its capacity to develop each gift.
Peter Senge
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Charles Darwin
Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting the different results
Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew.
Albert Einstein
Some people would rather die than think
Bertrand Russell
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
Isaac Newton
Those who do nothing are never wrong.
Theodore de Bouville
You must be the change you want to see in the world. If blood is to be spilled to do it. Let it be our own.
Mahatma Gandhi
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
Edward de Bono
First define, then refine.
Bill Guild NZ Pioneer teacher
Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get.
William Feather US Author
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody is not thinking.
George S Paton
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.
Franklin P Adams
Things do not change; we change.
Thoreau
To the blind all things are sudden.
Old saying
You can't jump a chasm in two bounds.
Chinese saying
Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the prostitute said, "It's not the job it's the stairs."
Anon
If you are looking for a big opportunity, find a big problem.
Anon
Learning is spontaneous, unpredictable, fun, passionate, dangerous.
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir man's blood... make big plans. Aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H Burnham
You see things and say "Why"? But I see things and say "Why not?"
A pessimist is a person who looks both ways before crossing a one way road.
I may have not got where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams
It is impossible to soar like an eagle if you are surrounded by turkeys
Anon
Human beings start out as butterflies and end up in cocoons.
Anon
To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.
David Bohm Physicist
Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.
Hebrew Proverb
Choices in life are rarely pure, but to understand the middle ground it is helpful to imagine the extremes.
Peter Berger, Sociologist
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
Les Brown
If you can change your mind, you can change the world.
Joey Reimer Creativity Guru
If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing it badly.
G K Chesterton
Remember a dead fish can float downstream but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W C Fields
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr Suess
Win small, win early, win often.
Gary Hamel
In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.
John Dewey
Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.
John Ralston Paul
Teach us to walk the soft Earth as relatives to all that live there.
Sioux Indian saying
Age is compulsory, wisdom is optional.
Anon
If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we've always got.
Adam Urbanski
Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.
Aristotle
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems to make a man more clever devil.
C S Lewis
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
C S Lewis
"Umuatu ngumuntu naga antu" "A person is a person because of other people."
Zulu saying
We can easily forgive a child whom is frightened of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.
Peter Block Business Philosopher
We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older…then it is very hard to change our minds.
Howard Gardner
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present.
Peter Drucker
To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.
Harriet Rubin Fast Company writer
If we want to create a workplace that values idealism, human connection, and real, in depth learning, we will have to create it ourselves.
Peter Block
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.
Alvin Tofler
When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen.
Harrison Owen
As your island of knowledge grows, so does your shoreline of wonder.
Anon
The human mind treats a new idea the way a body treats a strange problem it rejects it.
Sir Peter Medawar
When I was young I thought that people at the top really understood what the hell was happening…now I know they don't know.
David Mahoney
An impressive proportion of great, original thinkers were educated at home…stimulated (and) born up by high expectations
Aquarian Conspiracy
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Frederico Fellini Film Director
Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go.
Sylvia Robinson
Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something…Many of us is fundamentalists…because it worked pretty well for us.
Howard Gardner
Too many decisions about changes are made by people untouched by the change process.
Peter Block, Business philosopher
Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.
Peter Berger Sociologist
There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker Business
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.
Peter Block
Bureaucracies are beautiful mechanisms for the evasion of responsibilities and guilt.
Warren Bennis Leadership expert
Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
David Perkins
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice.
Anon
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