Peter Block Quotes - Page 2

What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

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

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

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

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

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

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

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

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

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

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

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

Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.

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