If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

Design is thinking made visual.

Saul Bass

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

Lolly Daskal

Good intentions don’t work. Mechanisms do.

Jeff Bezos

Being an introvert doesn't mean we are shy, it just means we don't get our energy from you.

Adolph Brown

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Arthur Baldwin

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In de democratie zit een absurditeit en dat is dat de waarheid tenslotte kwantitatief wordt bepaald.

Godfried Bomans

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Roger Miller

Om grote dingen te verwezenlijken moeten we niet alleen doen, maar ook dromen; niet alleen plannen, maar ook geloven.

Anatole France

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Bob Ross

Want de echte vraag is of een betere toekomst altijd echt zo ver weg is. Integendeel: wat als die er al lang is, en als alleen onze eigen blindheid en zwakte ons verhinderd heeft om die te zien en ons weerhouden heeft om die te ontwikkelen.

Vaclav Havel

Nothing in this world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The minute you supply a person with the answers… you block them, once and for all, from the opportunity of inventing those same answers for themselves… [If] what you want is action to be taken, then you must refrain from giving the answers.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

We shouldn’t focus on making the right decision, but making the decision right for us.

Adam Grant

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Aristotle

As thinking is the primary cause of waste, isn't it better to change thinking?

John Seddon

You think that because you understand “one” that you must therefore understand “two” because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand “and".

Donella H. Meadows,

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

Myron Tribus

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.

Steve Jobs

We know a tremendous amount about how the world works, but not nearly enough. Our knowledge is amazing; our ignorance even more so. We can improve our understanding, but we can't make it perfect.

Donella H. Meadows

Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.

Donella H. Meadows

Een incident is altijd het onderzoeken waard, om te kijken of het structureel is.

Renske Leijten

Het bezit van kennis geeft twee voordelen: men oordeelt minder en men oordeelt beter.

François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A model seeks to represent reality.
A framework is a way of looking at reality.

Dave Snowden

You can facilitate it, support it, help it happen; but you can’t manage it. People only learn when they need to, or have problems to solve.

Charles Jennings

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Stephen R. Covey

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Steven Wright

Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.

W. Edwards Deming

In de geest van de beginner bestaan vele mogelijkheden, in de geest van de kenner slechts enkele.

Shunryu Suzuki.

Pas op voor de leegte van een druk leven.

Socrates

Om kennis te vergaren moet men elke dag dingen toevoegen.
Om wijsheid te vergaren moet men elke dag dingen loslaten.

Lao-tse

Een essentialist denkt dat bijna alles non-essentieel is.

Greg McKeown

Je kunt de onbelangrijkheid van vrijwel alles niet overschatten.

John C. Maxwell

Het is het vermogen om te kiezen dat ons menselijk maakt.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.

Orna Ross

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Voltaire

We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Russell Ackoff

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

Perfection of means and confusion of goals …. Characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

In this era of social media and digital distractions, many students —and adults— do a lot of multitasking. But there is no such thing as successful multitasking, because much of the time spent is wasted on context switching, where the brain has to restart and refocus.

Edward Kang

Current performance is, axiomatically, dependent on current thinking. What works is changing thinking.

John Seddon

Good intentions are worthless without good actions.

John C Maxwell

Bedenk dit, vrienden.
Er zijn geen slechte planten,
geen slechte mensen,
enkel slechte kwekers.

Victor Hugo

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Reid Hoffman

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expections.

Edward de Bono

"What I like doing best is Nothing,” said Christopher Robin. “It’s when people call out to you, ‘What are you going to do?’ and you say ‘Oh, Nothing,’ and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

A.A.Milne