Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

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.

When the living gets unburdened with needs and desires, the life becomes simple and easy to carry.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Two other personality traits could also make more likely [Donald] Trump's use of nuclear weapons: his impulsiveness and his lack of predictability.

I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

I must have been a koala in my past life.

If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister's funeral," that's when it hits me.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.