"Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing â€˜patterns of changeâ€™ rather than static â€˜snapshots.â€™"

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Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.59, Random House

Peter Senge

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“Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.”

Source : Charles Wheelan (2012). “10 1⁄2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”

Source : Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”
“I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. Thatâ€™s all I want â€“ just one doctor in Africa.”

Source : Don McCullin (2011). “Shaped by War”, Random House UK
“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.”
“While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.”
“I grew up in the heart of the Depression.”
“I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.”

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