"Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin.……" — Margaret J. Wheatley
"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, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others"
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Margaret J. Wheatley
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86 Quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatley has 86 quotes on this site.
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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover…
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
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Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation…
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Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
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Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out…
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We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future.…
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In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own…
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We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.
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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…
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