Peter Senge Quotes
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I try to work with people the way they prefer.
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I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.
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I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.
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Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.
