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Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#aggression #believing #destroy #destructive #each

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#better #challenges #command #control #crises

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#backwards #became #century #command #companion

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#believe #better #depends #i #i believe

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

#closer #creates #fragmentation #healthy #helps

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#savior #beauty

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#being #circus #doing #end #famous

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. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#actions #affecting #begin #carefully #character

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. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anger #best #bringing #choose #conditions

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#because #clear #difference #even #going