Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

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.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

I found that most people who buy restaurants should never have done it, because they don't understand money.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.