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

• I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it

  

  Audrey Hepburn

• 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

• Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• 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

• This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Men

• While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

  

  William Booth
  • Men
  • Children
  • Fighting

• When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Film
  • Watches
  • Cameras

• They the Beatles came backstage after one of my lectures, and they said to me: 'Even from an early age we have been seeking a highly spiritual existence. We tried drugs and that didn't work.' They are such practical and intelligent young boys that it took them only two days to find that Transcendental Meditation is the answer.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Work
  • Age
  • Spiritual

• I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • House
  • Sea
  • Kingdom

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

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Reflection