Peter Senge Quotes
In essence, leaders are people who 'walk ahead,' people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.
Quotes to Explore
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.
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The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.
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A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.
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In essence, leaders are people who 'walk ahead,' people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.
