Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great 'team', a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way-who trusted one another, who complemented each other's strengths and compensated for each other's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than an individual's goals, and who produced extraordinary results ... the team that became great didn't start off great-it learned how to produce extraordinary results.

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.’

Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.