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Us Quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley
- Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all…
- Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We…
- Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What…
- In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious…
- Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that…
- I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
- In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that…
- For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
- When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in…
- Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
- Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we…
- There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a…
- Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character,…
- Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our…
- Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share…
- It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong