An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

All great things have small beginnings.

The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking.

The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!

Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.