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 work closely with Hispanic leadership.
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I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed.
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Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.
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People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.
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In essence, leaders are people who 'walk ahead,' people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.
