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.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

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.

Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

The poet lusts after emotionally unavailable people because she doesn't have to worry about commitment. The poet desperately wants commitment.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.

My hope is to never act again and just do press.

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.