Margaret Heffernan Quotes

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When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

Margaret Heffernan

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

Margaret Heffernan

Money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

Margaret Heffernan

Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.

Margaret Heffernan

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Margaret Heffernan

Margaret Heffernan

Margaret Heffernan

Born: June 16, 1955 (age 69)

Bio: Margaret Heffernan is an international businesswoman, author, interviewer, and TED speaker. She is currently settled in the UK in the city of Bath and is a part-time lecturer at the School of Management of the University of Bath.

Known for:

Gynaecological Cancer Guide (2005)

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