If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.

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.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.