"we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing."

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Source : Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Margaret J. Wheatley

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“Home is a complex and resonant idea.”

Source : "A Book is a Machine for Stories". Interview with Martin Riker, logger.believermag.com. April 22, 2015.
“The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.”
“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?”
“Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2016). “We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays”, p.67, Columbia University Press
“You can't win unless you learn how to lose.”
“From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.”
“When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I would be asked to write the review. The usual ratio of Friedman criticism is 2:1, i.e., two human words to make sense of each single word of Friedmanese. Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays.”
“I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.”

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