Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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WorkPowerOrganizationControlOver

Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being realistic enough to know you have to make serious changes sometimes.

Jim Irsay

GreatEnoughYouKnowSometimes

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

John Burdett

PeopleBrilliantOutStressedWho

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Menachem Begin

FindDeafWillListenRationalUs

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Maura Tierney

MomentFocusDoingUpTakesSpan

By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

Jeff Giles

SharksCircleKnowNowHollywood

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

Michael Bay

LoveFreeDoingYouTrainMovies

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

Tommy Lee Jones

PeopleSayingYouI CanSayImage

As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.

Rithvik Dhanjani

Do The Right ThingI AmSomeoneYou

The image of a pregnant woman embracing her figure and really putting it out there can be scary to some people, but I don't let that stand in my way, and I don't think other women should either.

Mary Helen Bowers

WomenWomanPeopleThinkStandWay

There's nothing - there's nothing - as action-packed as 'Hawaii Five-O.'

Michelle Borth

HawaiiNothing

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LifeChurchNew LifeEasyNewNever

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Don DeLillo

PeopleMeEatingProfessionalism

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