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.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

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

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

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.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

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