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

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Confucius.

Ordinary people think merely how they will spend their time, a man of intellect tries to use it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Discipline derives from disciple - disciple to a philosophy, to a set of principles, to a set of values, to an overriding purpose, to a superordinate goal or a person who represents that goal.

Stephen R. Covey

Learning is the product of experience. Learning can only take place through the attempt to solve a problem and therefore only takes place during activity.

Kenneth Arrow

Harder werken kan iedereen.
Slimmer werken, daar word je pas echt blij van!

Taco Oosterkamp

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.

Brian Herbert

The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another.

Richard Feynmann

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Denis Waitley

Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.

Eric Thomas

Behandel iemand zoals hij is en hij blijft zoals hij is. Behandel iemand zoals hij zou kunnen zijn en hij wordt wie hij kan zijn.

Goethe

Five lies of identity: 1) I am what I have. 2) I am what I do. 3) I am what other people say or think of me. 4) I am nothing more than my worst moment. 5) I am nothing less than my best moment.

Henri Nouwen

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

Barbara Corcoran

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

One of the things that limits our learning is our belief that we already know something.

David Marquet

The difference between successful people and extremely successful people is that extremely successful people learn to say No more that successful people.

Lewis Howes

It is not in the stars
to hold or destiny
but in ourselves

William Shakespeare

Patience is bitter, but the fruit can be sweet.

Benjamin Franklin

De conclusie is: als je succes wilt hebben, beperk jezelf.

Charles Augustin Saint-Beuve

If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!

Bill Walsh