You “never arrive”; you spend your life mastering disciplines

“To practice a discipline is to be a lifelong learner.  You “never arrive”; you spend your life mastering disciplines. You can never say, “we are a learning organisation,” any more than you can say “I am an enlightened person.”  The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance.  Thus, a corporation cannot be “excellent” in the sense of having arrived at a permanent excellence; it is always in the state of practicing the disciplines of learning, of becoming better or worse.”  Peter Senge 1990 The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization Doubleday Business. p.11