Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.

Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.

The objective of education is learning, not teaching

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.