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Peter Block Quotes about Learning

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The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.

Peter Block
Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.

Peter Block
Learning, Knowledge, Yesterday

Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.

Peter Block
Teaching, Learning, Understanding
Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.50, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

Peter Block
Learning, Knowledge, People

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

Peter Block
Learning, Knowledge, People

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Peter Block
Learning, Institutions, Ifs
Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.92, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Peter Block
Learning, Knowledge, Issues

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

Peter Block
Children, Teaching, Learning
Peter Block (2002). “The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

Peter Block
Learning, Knowledge, Mean

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

Peter Block
Teaching, Learning, Adventure

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