We need to be the authors of our own life.

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.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.