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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Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
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The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
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Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
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I deny the very existence of that Almighty Supreme Being.
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As a kid, I felt really weird.
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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.
