You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

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.

Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum.

Animals fight wars

Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.