Top 1200 Learning Organization Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

My sister has a non-profit organization called Mission Change. It helps the homeless and kids.

Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins.

I think we create our own reality by the thoughts we have. Recovery for me has been learning how to choose my thoughts, learning how to listen to my thinking and not choose the negativity. I don't have fights with people in supermarkets anymore. I honestly thought for years that my rage was who I was, that people who didn't think the way I thought were lying to themselves.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Once you have a handle on loving yourself, you can practice sharing that love with others. You’ve probably been taught to reserve the language of love for when you’re feeling overwhelmingly tender and passionate, and only for those who have made huge commitments to you. We recommend instead learning to recognize and acknowledge all the sweet feelings that make life worthwhile even when they don’t knock you over—and, moreover, learning to communicate those feelings to the people who inspire them.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

There was no title fight in any organization in the world that in my opinion was absurd for me to be a contender in.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to figure out what to say and, lately, I've started trying to work through things in my head. Before, I wouldn't trust my instincts or what I wanted to say and I really struggled with what I wanted to say. I guess it's just the classic case of writer's block and learning how to work through that. I'm slowly learning how.

The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.

In a business where it's cutthroat, it's cool to be able to play with one organization your whole career.

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

It [RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE] has definitely been the biggest learning curve for me. As an actor, whenever I start on a movie, different things that I perform in ask for different skill sets. And this one is definitely the technological side of it. You have to hit your mark. You can't weave back and forth because your nose is jutting at you in 3-D. It's really been learning how to do that and also it's exciting to be on the forefront of this technology.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

There are no hard feelings between me and the Bears' organization. I had a great run here.

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

A thrilled customer is the most potent marketing asset your organization can leverage.

Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try lots of new things, and I started to play guitar at camp. It was a place for acceptance and learning to be a part of a community, but also learning to be yourself. I want that for all kids, but some kids don't have the opportunity to go to camp. I want to help.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

I've been in those relationships. You go through years of your life and at a certain point you wake up and you go, god, what am I doing here? What have I spent the last three years doing? Part of it is learning, this process you've gotta go through. You have to recognize the point at which you're not learning anymore, and be able to let it go.

Develop a clear vision for your organization. Where do you want to be in five years?

An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis (1) undermines students' interest in learning, (2) makes failure seem overwhelming, (3) leads students to avoid challenging themselves, (4) reduces the quality of learning, and (5) invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.

People who join my organization are usually very cool at first, but they become troublesome later.

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant, and faithful in living gospel principles, or they may learn something else. Learning the gospel in the homes of Church members should be centered on the scriptures and on the words of the latter-day prophets. The Lord has commanded parents to teach their children.

Learning what it is to be among other human beings includes learning that they can be different from us as well as similar. We imagine what it would be like to experience the world differently from their locations, nor our own. We might still use analogies to understand others, but analogies point to similarities that co-exist with differences. Similar in some respects is consistent with different in other respects.

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

When the opportunity arose for me to join an organization like the Celtics, I could not refuse.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

The Bills gave me my first opportunity. In my mind, I'll be forever grateful for that organization.

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.

The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

The Rays organization pays close attention to what's going on mentally and emotionally for its players.

The Houston Astros are an organization I really respect and they have a lot of great players.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

I don't think there's anywhere else better than the Giants in terms of organization and history.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I'm obviously very grateful to play for a sports organization like the Boston Celtics.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.

RSS is an organization that is trained in spreading lies and creating communal clashes.

Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.

The owner always has the final say. You have to decide who is going to be the best fit for the organization.

People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.

But I have a home in Arizona now. I've loved coming up with this organization and being with these guys.