Quotations
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
Ghandi
"Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival."
W. Edwards Deming
"You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people."
Admiral Grace Hooper
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
"The goal of education is understanding; the goal of training is performance."
Frank Bell
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember; amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic."
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place"
George Bernard Shaw
"We judge ourselves by our intentions. We judge others by their behaviour"
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
Albert Einstein
"The human mind is like a parachute – it functions best when it is open"
"The only one who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe"
"Failure is a state of mind; success is a state of action"
"All truth goes through three steps:
First it is ridiculed
Second it is violently opposed
Finally it is accepted as self-evident"
Arthur Schopenhauer – German philosopher
"We are what we think
All that we are arises with our thoughts
With our thoughts we make the world"
The Buddha
"In times of change…. learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
Erik Hoffer
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
"None of us are as smart as all of us"
Japanese proverb
"If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"
Abraham Maslow
“I cannot stand being taught - but I enjoy learning”.
Sir Winston Churchill
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."
Joe Girard – Worlds Greatest Salesman – Guinness Book of World Records