Others can measure their visions by what we see.
All great things have small beginnings.
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.
We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.
The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.
The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.
I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.
Vickie is so fat that her baby pictures were taken via satellite.
[Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament. . . Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?
At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.