Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LeadershipSadGreatPastControl

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Jim Fowler

LittleConservationDifferentThose

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

John Sebastian

WordsMusiciansDoingBackKnow

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

Rose Schneiderman

MenMeOrganizationDawnLostThree

You're put on this platform where you see beauty every day, and you kinda get numb to it. So then it's like, 'What else do you have? You really can't hold a conversation? Next'.

Rotimi

BeautyDayYouEvery DaySeeHold

On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.

Jonathan Haidt

GodSpiritualPeopleWorldFeeling

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

Dominic Thiem

MyselfMindSpeakThinkNobodyKnow

And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

Dennis Muren

WorkGoodWorldGood WorkBusyDone

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

Donna Brazile

VisionMoneyYouWillOpponentOut

My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.

Bonnie Hammer

LifeLoveSonMeSeeingCareer

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

Pierre Schaeffer

ForwardStepsTakeFranceDidFew

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

LoveFearPeopleAmbitionPrideYou

You should always be questioning your government, but do not become cynical.

Pete Visclosky

GovernmentYouBecomeQuestioning

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