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Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.

The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

We get the leaders we create.

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

Raise the question of what do we want to create together, even for an established institution.