Meg Wheatley Quotes

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Sharing

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Start

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Soul
  • Sky

• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Thinking
  • Negative
  • Negativity

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Unique

• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Trying
  • Political
  • Food

• When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Energy
  • Band

• The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

  

  John Glenn
  • Important
  • Help
  • Science

• I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Playing
  • Guitar
  • Fragile

• You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Game
  • You

• Video has become much more social, and as a result, there are many opportunities to use video as a way to connect people, to give them opportunities to play and participate, to make things together and have a shared social experience. I think we are just at the beginning of really exploring what social video is and what we can make of it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Experience
  • Together

• That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

  

  Joe Mantegna
  • Why

• I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • World