Meg Wheatley Quotes

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

Meg Wheatley

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Me
  • Court
  • Skeptics

• The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Moment
  • Thing

• I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Last

• In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I've decided to study the MBA, as it's crucial to have comprehensive knowledge of business administration and management in running science technology institutes as well as making science-related policies.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Business
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Same
  • Interest
  • Depend

• I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Think
  • Most

• Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Teach

• When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Live
  • You
  • Civil Rights

• We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

  

  Larry Page
  • Why
  • Know
  • Government

• Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Day
  • Sometimes
  • Bag

• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Power
  • Successful
  • Ignore

• Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Why
  • Violence

• Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Diseases
  • Malaria
  • Dengue

• I don't know about the totally happy album, though. I don't know if that will ever come from me.

  

  John Grant
  • Happy

• Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Suffer
  • Fools

• But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Technology
  • Customer experience

• Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

  

  Meg Wheatley