"When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to."

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Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.16, Random House

Peter Senge

#People Quotes #Vision Quotes #Want Quotes

“Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.”
“I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.”
“The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.”
“The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.”
“I'm happy to have discussions about what's going on creatively to an extent but I need final cut on absolutely everything. And that's hard to get in 2016 if you're hell-bent on doing everything your own way.”

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“Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want.”
“I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Daniel Alarcón" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2013.
“I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.”

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