Meg Wheatley Quotes
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
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I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
