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Peter Senge Quotes

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

Peter Senge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1947

Topics

Change Broken People Think You Need

If you are not emotionally involved, your client is not getting your best effort.

Joe Jamail

Best Effort You Involved Client

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

Joe Frazier

Tree Day Me Mom Bag Rocks

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Maurice Strong

Make A Difference You Accept Will

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

Anita Diament

Me Research Library Doing Year Did

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

John Updike

Success Death Me Back Uncle Copy

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

Skitch Henderson

Tomorrow You Longevity Going Just

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

Steve Wozniak

Life Computers Build Never Been Had

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

Rob Gronkowski

Creative Action Movies Single Every

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

Robin Zander

Life Home Me Growing Up Growing Up

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Josh Hutcherson

Character Best Literature Period

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

Jose Padilha

Freedom Step Me Giving Camera Mark

I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.

Johnny Depp

People Career Movies Lucky See Big