It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

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.

Repent, return and be restored by Jesus Christ.

Psychographics speaks more to an attitude, a lifestyle.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

On MTV, the dialogue can be a little darker, more interesting and edgy... the animation is just phenomenal. It's a CGI program that's doing all the animation.

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease.