Actionable Knowledge Quotes

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

Information without execution is poverty.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.