Senge Systems Quotes

#1. The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

Peter Senge

#2. We need to learn the disciplines that will help cultivate the wisdom of the group and larger social systems.

Peter M. Senge

#3. If you could just have my head for half an hour, you'd know why I go mad.

Ronald Reng

#4. Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

Alice Walker

#5. Really? I'm trying to place you. It seems like we've met before. Did I just issue him a pick up line? Fantastic, I've now sunk to the level of desperate teenage boys everywhere.

Jamie McGuire

#6. [ ... ] most of the problems faced by humankind concerns [concerned] our inability to grasp and manage the increasingly complex systems of our world.

Peter M. Senge

#7. Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

Mason Cooley

#8. At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

Albert Einstein

#9. Business and human endeavors are systems ... we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

Peter M. Senge

#10. We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

#11. So even if I'm getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I'm still a boy about women. It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.

Daniel Keyes

#12. sometimes I just want to sit in the same place forever because I don't have the energy for another day without Cal in it.

Cath Crowley

#13. I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

Miep Gies

#14. [ ... ] vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.

Peter M. Senge

#15. I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

John Scalzi

#16. Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.

Lisa Vanderpump