49 Quotes by Peter Block

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

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

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

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

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.

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

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

We get the leaders we create.

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