Margaret Wheatley Short Quotes

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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.

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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

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We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

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Leadership is always dependent upon the context, but the context is established by the relationships.

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A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

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Focusing makes things fuzzier. The more we study a complex phenomenon, the more confused we are bound to become.

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In a complex system, there is no such thing as simple cause and effect. There's no one person to blame, or to take the credit.

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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

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I believe the fundamental work of this time — work that requires the participation of all of us — is to discover new ways of 'being together.'

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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 us humans.

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We don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.

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Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

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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.

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In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. How can we learn to see the systems we're participating in? How can we act intelligently when things remain fuzzy?

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