Quotations

Back to Library "I believe that technology is ushering in a new golden age for mankind. I also believe that technology is making the human side of the business equation — skills and knowledge — more valuable than ever. As technology levels the playing field, the human factor becomes more important, if you run a business. In plain English, you need good people more than ever. That’s because computers will never substitute for common sense and good judgement. They will never have empathy either. To be successful, a business needs good people who can see the big picture, who can think critically and have strong character." Rupert Murdoch (2008, p. 25) 2008 Australian Boyer lecture series

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” ~Vernon Howard “It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.”~ Claude Bernard “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.” ~John Dewey “Learning is not a spectator sport.” ~D. Blocher “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” ~ Albert Einstein “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”~ Pablo Picasso <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif; font-size: medium;">“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.” ~W. Edwards Deming <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif; font-size: medium;">“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ~ John Locke <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif; font-size: medium;">“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” ~ John W. Gardner

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif; font-size: medium;">"The limits of your language are the limits of your world." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein