651 Posts Found

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Philosophy, Wisdom

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Life, Social Responsibility (ESG)

“Our” stories are more effective (authentic) than “their” or even “my” stories.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Persuasion

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning — much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Strategy, Wisdom

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, throu canst not then be false to any man.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Character, Integrity, Personal Development

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Knowledge, Wisdom

Confidence precedes competence.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competence, Confidence

What gives something meaning, besides the meaning we give it?

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Life, Philosophy

When governance has the texture of service it calls for a like response from those governed.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Government, Leadership

We think, and with those thoughts, we create. We create the world we live in … We harvest in life, only and exactly, what we sow in our minds.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Life, Personality / Behavior

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Ambition, Personality / Behavior

All inquiry, whatever its subject, has as its final object the matter of how to go about living.

Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Life, Strategy

Knowingness is murderous of wonder and of insight, and ultimately it does a violent disservice to that which it sought to serve.

Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Knowledge, Wisdom

The information society is completed — it’s actually been around about 90 years. Now we’re beginning the post-information society. In Alvin Toffler’s terms, any time one of these new ‘waves’ comes in, like when the agricultural economy started giving way to the industrial economy, you have an ‘epoch of uncertainty.’ Now we’re at a point where the uncertainty may never stabilize — there is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Inc.com | Subjects: Future, History

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

Content: Quotation | Sources: America’s Leading Design Firm, The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo | Subjects: Planning, Preparation

Learning has to do with integrating information into your own internal framework so you own it within your own conceptual space. That means you have to engage in some kind of action with the knowledge being transferred to you.

Content: Quotation | Source: LineZine | Subjects: Knowledge, Learning

Knowledge isn’t power; the ability to act on knowledge is power.

Most firms grossly overinvest in technologies that let people see what’s going on and dramatically underinvest in delegation and true empowerment.

Content: Quotation | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Knowledge, Power / Authority

The fact that the Web is distracting is not an accident. It is the Web’s hyperlinked nature to pull our attention here and there. But it is not clear that this represents a weakening of our culture’s intellectual powers, a lack of focus…. Maybe set free in a field of abundance, our hunger moves us from three meals a day to day-long grazing…. Perhaps the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Small Pieces Loosely Joined (book) | Subjects: Attention, Information

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Future, Innovation

Isn’t a fair social system the one that we would pick if we didn’t know ahead of time what our role will be?

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Government, Philosophy