Pushing rarely opens the door to genuine learning...

Pull beats push.

Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.

Francine Jay

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

Robert Kiyosaki

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

Blaise Pascal

De helft van alle problemen in dit leven kan worden teruggevoerd op te snel 'ja' zeggen en niet snel genoeg 'nee' zeggen.

Josh Billings

Onze hoogste prioriteit is om ons vermogen prioriteiten te stellen, te beschermen.

Greg McKeown

De wijsheid van het leven bestaat uit het verwijderen van wat niet essentieel is.

Lin Yutang

Als er al een geheim voor succes is, dan is dat het vermogen om dingen te bekijken vanuit zowel het oogpunt van iemand anders als dat van zichzelf.

Henry Ford

Twee regels voor succes. Ten eerste: vertel nooit alles wat je weet.

R.J. Lincoln

Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing

Herodotus

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

Tony Robbins

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Seth Godin

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men & women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Brian Tracy

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen R. Covey

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

Carol Dweck

It's better to do less than you hoped than nothing at all. No zero days.

James Clear

We achieve more when we chase the dream instead of the competition.

Simon Sinek

When people say they don’t want to change what they really mean is they don’t have an incentive to change. Change the incentives and the behavior follows suit.

James Clear

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

W. Edwards Deming

This indispensable first step to getting what you want is this: decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

Noreena Hertz

"…there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." 

Morpheus

The Secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

John Maxwell

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself.

Stephen R. Covey

Taking charge of your learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Warren Bennis

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Washington Irving

The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.

Sophocles

Formal learning can teach you a great deal; but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

Lee Iaccoa

And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen R. Covey

Any situation that involves uncertainty is where learning your way forward via scientific thinking (instead of trying to decide your way forward) is important.

Mike Rother

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Oprah Winfrey

[T]here are measures of focus, and one of them is how often you say no.

Steve Jobs

De twee belangrijkste dagen van je leven zijn je geboorte en de dag dat je erachter komt ‘waarom’.

Mark Twain

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing.

Pelé

Progress in understanding requires that we challenge basic assumptions about how the world is and why it is that way.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that is how you grow.

Marissa Mayer

Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.

Jay Danzie

If you want to be succesful in this world, you have to follow your passion, not a paycheck.

Jen Welter

Do not repeat the tactics which you have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.

Sun Tzu

Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama. Yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions.

Edgar H. Schein

In het boek Commitment - de belofte van betrokkenheid en bevlogenheid in organisaties beschrijft Gyuri Vergouw wat hij verstaat onder 'commitment':

Speurtocht naar commitment

Bij veel gebruikte, maar abstracte begrippen als commitment loert het gevaar dat uiteindelijk een hol containerbegrip ontstaat dat hierdoor een groot deel van zijn kracht verliest. Daarnaast ontstaat het probleem dat iedereen iets anders bedoelt in het dagelijks gebruik. Een echt synoniem voor commitment ontbreekt eigenlijk in de Nederlands taal.

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Het woord commitment stamt oorspronkelijk uit het Latijn, waar committere zoveel betekent als 'toevertrouwen'. Een speurtocht langs woordenboeken en websites leverde weer een ander beeld op. Ik heb getracht het beste van al deze begrippen en duidingen te vatten in de onderstaande definitie.

Commitment is:

De vastlegging van beloften, waarbij betrokkenen zich op een bepaald moment bereid verklaren en verbinden om concreet gedrag op een ander moment te vertonen. Men heeft hierbij sterke betrokkenheid, emotioneel, moreel en/of intellectueel, bij de eindresultaten en kiest hier bewust en zelfstandig voor. De belofte is vrijwillig, niet vrijblijvend.

Ik vind zo'n definitie belangrijk. Het zet zaken een beetje op scherp. Anders blijft het allemaal bij goedbedoelde intenties en ontstaan er geen concrete acties. Wollig taalgebruik ligt namelijk altijd op de loer terwijl we het in essentie toch zo goed bedoelen.

Bron: Commitment - de belofte van betrokkenheid en bevlogenheid in organisaties, Gyuri Vergouw

Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Sun Tzu

It´s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy E. Disney

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publius Syrius