Nonaka Quotes & Sayings

If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Don't be so busy making a living that you forget to enjoy your Life. Today, make a commitment to Enjoy Life.-RVM — R.v.m.

A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid. — Tad Williams

Without real exchange, you can't create knowledge. — Ikujiro Nonaka

There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them to. In — Yuval Noah Harari

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss. — Thomas C. Oden

Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship). — Yasmin Mogahed

Tacit knowledge is personal, context-specific, and therefore hard to formalize and communicate. Explicit or "codified" knowledge, on the other hand, refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. — Ikujiro Nonaka

The art of creating value from intangible assets (Liebowitz 1999; Nonaka — Anonymous

It was a lot to carry out of a childhood
all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina
but a lot of us did it. In those manicured lives and choreographed marriages there was an often-pronounced loneliness, an emptiness that we would try to fill with our own accomplishments. And our role, the one we would have so much trouble trying to shed later, was simply to be the best little girls in the world, the high- achieving, make-no-waves, properly behaved little kittens. — Anne Taylor Fleming

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge. — Ikujiro Nonaka

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past. — Daniel Day-Lewis