Quotes from Margaret J. Wheatley
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 problems that afflict and impede us.
- 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 suffering.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
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 squeeze the life out of us.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
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 don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
- Margaret J. Wheatley