Quotes About Learning And Leadership

#1. Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people.

Richard Branson

#2. Technology Coaches demonstrate professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions in content, pedagogical, and technological areas as well as adult learning and leadership and are continuously deepening their knowledge and expertise.

Jo Williamson

#3. Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Andy Hargreaves

#4. Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.

Robert Lane Greene

#5. High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

Andy Hargreaves

#6. There is no check-box for ethical leadership.
It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey.
We will never know everything that there is to know.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#7. As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.

John C. Maxwell

#8. When challenges present themselves, practice will permit you to draw on the wisdom and learning you cultivate as you learn to lead valiantly.

Catherine Robinson-Walker

#9. If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

Mark Twain

#10. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

Hilarie Owen

#11. A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

Andy Hargreaves

#12. If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them.

Mark W. Boyer

#13. Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Andy Hargreaves

#14. Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

Andy Hargreaves

#15. The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result.

Roshan Sharma

#16. By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Always seek to learn: The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.

Artika R. Tyner

#18. A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

Andy Hargreaves

#19. I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.

Simon Sinek

#20. High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Andy Hargreaves

#21. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Criss Jami

#22. A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Andy Hargreaves

#23. Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Andy Hargreaves

#24. When young people develop basic leadership and collaborative learning skills, they can be a formidable force for change.

Peter M. Senge

#25. Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

Andy Hargreaves

#26. The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

Andy Hargreaves

#27. Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'.

Bobby Darnell

#28. Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

Andy Hargreaves

#29. Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

Andy Hargreaves

#30. High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

Andy Hargreaves

#31. In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

Theo James

#32. Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future ... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches ... facilitate learning.

Warren G. Bennis

#33. The "artificial gap" between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement.

Pearl Zhu

#34. It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

Ivanka Trump

#35. If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

Andy Hargreaves

#36. Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

Mark W. Boyer

#37. Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

Andy Hargreaves

#38. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#39. Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Andy Hargreaves

#40. No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground.

Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

#41. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.

A.J. Darkholme

#42. Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

A.J. Darkholme

#43. Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

Andy Hargreaves

#44. We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

Andy Hargreaves

#45. The philosophy of project-based homeschooling - this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers - is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children.

Lori McWilliam Pickert

#46. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

John C. Maxwell

#47. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]

John F. Kennedy

#48. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#49. Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Andy Hargreaves

#50. Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.

Robin Hoyle

#51. The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.

Tanveer Naseer

#52. You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Andy Hargreaves

#53. I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

Russell Wilson

#54. Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.

Henry Kimsey-House

#55. Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

Jennifer James

#56. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.

Pearl Zhu

#57. When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Andy Hargreaves

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

Peter Block

#59. A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it; they will focus and do what they can.

Israelmore Ayivor

#60. But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

Quint Studer

#61. In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

Andy Hargreaves

#62. What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

Andy Hargreaves

#63. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.

Tony Dovale

#64. Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Andy Hargreaves

#65. Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

Andy Hargreaves

#66. When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

Andy Hargreaves

#67. I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

Bradford Winters

#68. Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Andy Hargreaves