Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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BusinessPlanningThinkThinkingNow

There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring. In the tactical area, I think I just have more than most other players.

Johan Cruyff

TrustPeopleMeThinkBetterYou

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Jenny Holzer

New YorkWritingMuseumNewStudy

There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.

Andy Kindler

EyesPeopleThinkFindWantJust

It's been said that Generation X should get a life. Well, in 'Bottle Rocket,' they get a life of crime. Or at least try.

Jeff Giles

LifeGenerationSaidCrimeTryWell

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Steve Jobs

PeopleMeDesignMeaningNothing

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

Sigourney Weaver

WomanInterestingStereotypesWrite

It's an interesting thing about being a 'fem.' People automatically assume that I'm straight.

Mary Lambert

PeopleInterestingAssumeBeing

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Michelle Bachelet

RespectQuestionsMatterCompliance

The way I see it, the third series of 'Downton Abbey' is all about change and how each character adapts to those changes.

Michelle Dockery

ChangeCharacterWayChangesSee

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

Loni Anderson

PersonTestOverAlmostWhoShould

I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in the industry that were like, 'Oh that's an interesting idea, but it will never work.' And, I don't know, I kind of believed everything that they told me.

Dennis Crowley

WorkPeopleMeBuildingStartKnow

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

Denis Villeneuve

ProblemYouCinemaPredictNever

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