All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

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.

To understand the song of life, listen to the melody of wind and ocean and watch the dance of waves and water.

Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.

I think it's the bravest thing in the world - to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt.

At this hourLie at my mercy all mine enemies.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.