Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.


Peter M. Senge

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I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL
Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH
There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER
A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN
I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES
Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO
By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK
It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL
In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS
The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK
When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI
Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK
Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON
When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON
Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI
I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS