Meg Wheatley Quotes
And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
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The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
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I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.
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And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
