If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint Exupéry
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. Dale Carnegie
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. Edward Albee
After a typhoon there are pears to gather up. English Proverb
If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant. Vietnamese Proverb
Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather. Czech Proverb