The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

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.

Time appears to be most wasted when someone seeks truth in lies

The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

I never had any run in with the law.