Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

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.

Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...

May you be filled with fullness of grace.

Is it a lucky break if you get run over by an ambulance?

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

My connection to Santa Fe is very closely, and continuously a connection with Reid. I believe in him and his philosophy of photographic education.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.