Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. —Peter Senge ...
If, in our eagerness to teach and help them, we send them enough of these messages of doubt and distrust, we may soon destroy most of all of their confidence in their ability to learn for themselves, and convince them that they really are too lazy, incurious, and stupid to learn. (...
11. “We need to get rid of bullying. We need to get rid of abuse. We need to get rid of harassment. We need to get rid of the casting couch. Instead, we need to build the bench.”– Nancy Dubuc 12. “You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down....
12. “The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” —Norman Vincent Peale
I know a good many men of great learning—that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test ...
“Endurance is composed of four attributes: eagerness, fear, piety and anticipation (of death). so whoever is eager for Paradise will ignore temptations; whoever fears the fire of Hell will abstain from sins; whoever practices piety will easily bear the difficulties of life and whoever anticipate...
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain. —Oliver Goldsmith ...
55. “To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 56. “The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 57. “‘Love me, then, or hate me, as you will’, I said at last, ‘you have my full and free...
It is also her belief that thepurpose of educationis to produce good citizens. And what is a good citizen? It is someone who has a well-developed sense of creativity, an eagerness to learn and be curious, and profound respect for life. Her quotes on education reflect these convictions. ...
One reason smart people don't always succeed is that there's always a moment when the smart thing to do would be to chuck the whole thing. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com It was that moment all men anticipate, some with eagerness and some with dread, when you finally confront your...