There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Jim Rohn

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize 'till you have tried to make it precise.

Bertrand Russell

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Richard Carlyle

Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

Henry David Thoreau,

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russel

Meaning exists in the interaction between things, not in the things themselves.

Alicia Juarrero

If a man will begin with certainties,
He shal end in doubts.
But if he will be content to begin with doubts,
He shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

Loslaten betekent tijdelijk het houvast verliezen. Niet loslaten betekent voor altijd het houvast verliezen.

Sören Kierkegaard

Een probleem is pas een probleem als het een probleem is.

Johan Cruijff

Becoming is better than being.

Carol S. Dweck

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.’

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Shinichi Suzuki

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.’

Confucius

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T.S. Eliot

It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field.

Daniel Pink

We are drowning in information, but are starved of knowledge.

John Naisbitt

The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

Bewaren

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca

Make it simple, but significant.

Don Draper

Maybe what we really need is not either/or but “the one and the other at the same time”. This very familiar problem pervades the whole of real life.

E.F. Schumacher.

Nothing fails like success.

Richard Pascale

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Grote daden komen niet voort uit kracht maar uit volharding.

Samuel Johnson

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Dieter Rams

Ik heb mijn psycholoog goed getraind: elke keer als ik op een hefboompje druk geeft hij mij een lekker hapje.

Paul Watzlawichk

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.

Moeder Teresa

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

Albert Gray

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Horace Bushnell

Naturally, the common people don't want war, neither in Russia nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same way in any country.

Hermann Goering

This is wisdom: to recognize what you know as what you know, and recognize what you do not know as what you do not know.

Confucius

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.

Tom Peters

Greatness is won, not awarded.

Guy Kawasaki

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Dee Hock

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Self-interest works only as long as there’s a containment vessel — a set of ethical principles that ensures enlightened self - interest doesn’t melt down into unbridled selfishness.

Gary Hamel

Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.

Donella H. Meadows

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

Franz Kafka

Als je ergens voor gaat, loop je het risico te verliezen. Als je niet gaat, heb je al verloren.

Barack Obama