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Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#destroying #die #effectiveness #eventually #everything

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. ↗

— Richard Whately

#exempt #failures #makes #only #who

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#attractive #conditions #creates #different #half

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch. ↗

— Paul Ince

#off #pitch #you

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

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

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

#aggression #culture #find #impede #less

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

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

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#build #done #effort #first #geeky