The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

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.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

I think it's really important to look at the walk and not the talk, and if you look at the walk, our paths [with Hillary Clinton] are extremely divergent.

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them