Dave Snowden quotes

“True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.”
-- Dave Snowden

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“Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.”
-- Dave Snowden

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“There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.”

“Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.”

“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.

“Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.”

“AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.”

“I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.”

“John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.”

Source : "As Serious As Your Life". Book by Valerie Wilmer, 1977.