Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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LifeDieLoseEverythingThings

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

Jill Sobule

MusicThinkSaidWriteFirstSongs

What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.

John C. Calhoun

CommunityExperienceWealthCountry

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

Andrew Stanton

WorkHomeFishingHobbyBackGo

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

Jen Lancaster

FoodBloodAlwaysItalian FoodHalf

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

FunnyMeLondonEnglishAccent

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

Stephen R. George

ShortHorrorJustStoriesFinished

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

Smedley Butler

BusinessSkySometimesThreeLimit

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Tom Goodman-Hill

WorkHard WorkMyselfCloudsCamera

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

Joseph Stiglitz

ThinkEnvironmentSeeingToo Much

I've written 'Eclipsed' as a funny story. It is completely bonkers.

Dominic Holland

FunnyStoryWrittenFunny Story

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

Douglas Rushkoff

WorkGovernmentTeaPeopleSociety

Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they were like, 'Turn it off! Go to bed!'

Courtney B. Vance

ParentsGrowing UpTelevisionSunday

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