An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Many admire, few know.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Facts are stubborn things.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.