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.
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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.
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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.
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People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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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.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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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.
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I'm not that interested in people.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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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.
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I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.
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I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
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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.
