Meg Wheatley Quotes

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Meg Wheatley

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• I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Food
  • Universe

• Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Deserve
  • Congress
  • Table

• Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Silly

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dark

• I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Book

• I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Real
  • School
  • Change

• I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Time
  • World
  • Party

• As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Soul
  • Christian
  • Unity

• Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Life
  • Family
  • Uncle

• I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Experience

• Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.

  

  Billy Evans
  • May
  • True
  • Team

• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Excellence

• The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Water
  • Band

• It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.

  

  David Ige
  • Listening

• Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• We do not judge great art. It judges us.

  

  Caroline Gordon
  • Great
  • Art
  • Judge

• I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Never
  • Red
  • Face

• My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by Virginia Woolf in 1960, but they wouldn't let me write about her. They said she was a trivializer. I also wanted to do a paper on Simone de Beauvoir, and my philosophy teacher said, "Why would you write about the mistress? Write about the master." That was Sartre.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Teachers

• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Past

• Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Reflection