Meg Wheatley Quotes

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

Meg Wheatley

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• I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Life
  • Success
  • Moments

• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Watch
  • Swim

• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Long
  • Sports
  • Win

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Opening

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Help
  • Like
  • Journalism

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • May
  • Dream

• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Live
  • Play

• I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Change
  • Crazy
  • Person

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Life
  • Book
  • Story

• Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Law
  • Prime Minister
  • Above

• Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

  

  Lance Loud
  • May
  • Mother
  • Parents

• If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Women
  • Stand

• And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Time
  • Day
  • Never Forget

• It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.

  

  Christopher Bond
  • Time
  • Small
  • Control

• Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Life
  • Good
  • Past

• I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• ICICI has been a meritocracy. So, a huge amount a lot of responsibilities, big roles, challenges, have been given to women, not because they are men or women or so on, but they were just given to people who have - who the organization believes has the capability to perform.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Control