Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew Shut in a lily's golden core.
MARGARET J. PRESTON Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primar...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully a...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if ...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to ...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created a...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now ema...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we ga...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st c...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening cre...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleague...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wan...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated ...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we em...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY To name is to make visible.
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the co...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use ...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rathe...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things ha...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is ...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know wha...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try ...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to ma...
PRESTON MANNING Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a ...
RICHARD PRESTON I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be ...
CARRIE PRESTON I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is t...
PRESTON STURGES I'm hearing these words about renewal of the ecumenical movement, but I'm looking for a tangible fra...
ALISON PRESTON Tracy was frustrated at the start of the season. She wasn't scoring and the links were which wasn't ...
ALISON PRESTON Annie was frustrated in the preseason but she's steadily improved and has seven goals.
ALISON PRESTON Everyone was upset when Mackenzie went down. When she came back, their level of play went back up. S...
ALISON PRESTON Pequannock's only lost two games, both to Madison, so they're obviously a good team.
ALISON PRESTON When we played Roxbury in the first round, we found out the final would be on our field. It's exciti...
ALISON PRESTON We've got no superstars but they're getting the job done.
ALISON PRESTON I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I d...
PRESTON BRADLEY The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co...
PRESTON BRADLEY Expect victory and you make victory.
PRESTON BRADLEY We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.
DOUGLAS PRESTON Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material...
RICHARD PRESTON The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.
KELLY PRESTON 'True Blood' is shot on film. It's more like a movie, and they take more days to shoot i...
CARRIE PRESTON Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which c...
RICHARD PRESTON We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire p...
RICHARD PRESTON Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not sta...
KELLY PRESTON jennie confirmed my suspicions that television advertising is directed mainly at people with the iq ...
DOUGLAS PRESTON When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone els...
PRESTON MANNING I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that...
CARRIE PRESTON I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
KELLY PRESTON Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, languag...
PRESTON MANNING For the Mackenzie fund, we look at it over more than 15 different screening criteria.
ANDREW PRESTON There's been a big change in investors and investors' outlook on the world. In the '80s, it was very...
ANDREW PRESTON We got Pat Bergmann the ball a lot more and he finished a lot more. It was a great team win. We pret...
ANDREW PRESTON This makes us 3-0 going into league play which is what we wanted.
ANDREW PRESTON This is huge, this is the biggest game of the season, ... it doesn't get any better than this.
ANDREW PRESTON I found a seam and I just cut back because they were over-pursuing. I have to thank my offensive lin...
ANDREW PRESTON By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart...
PRESTON STURGES I shot all my stuff on 'Arrested Development' in one day, and was brought into a really well...
CARRIE PRESTON When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is...
PRESTON MANNING There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, prolifera...
PRESTON MANNING Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it...
RICHARD PRESTON The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that be...
RICHARD PRESTON For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one th...
PRESTON STURGES I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
KELLY PRESTON But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this Ho...
PRESTON BROOKS I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancest...
PRESTON STURGES Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someon...
RICHARD PRESTON The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the talle...
RICHARD PRESTON The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was pl...
BILLY PRESTON The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
BILLY PRESTON It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the ...
BILLY PRESTON I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.
BILLY PRESTON I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of pe...
BILLY PRESTON I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom...
BILLY PRESTON I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.
BILLY PRESTON There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition...
PRESTON MANNING My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping...
DOUGLAS PRESTON 'The Good Wife' was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I've had in a long tim...
CARRIE PRESTON I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I d...
PRESTON BRADLEY I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by m...
PRESTON STURGES It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere...
PRESTON STURGES Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate co...
RICHARD PRESTON In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balan...
PRESTON STURGES That's what they do. They'll make eight-point runs on you. That's why they're No. 1 in (the) section...
RAY PRESTON I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had...
PRESTON BROOKS A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when yo...
CARRIE PRESTON I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character diff...
CARRIE PRESTON We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And ofte...
CARRIE PRESTON The earth's biosphere could be thought of as a sort of palace. The continents are rooms in the p...
RICHARD PRESTON Where I think we're headed is a system of universal care, where everybody is covered ... with two tr...
PRESTON MANNING Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.
PRESTON MANNING The Halton Peel Canadian Club was launched in September of 2001,
PRESTON MANNING The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places eve...
PRESTON STURGES Hubris and science are incompatible.
DOUGLAS PRESTON Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face....
RICHARD PRESTON I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead...
RICHARD PRESTON No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an...
RICHARD PRESTON In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, w...
RICHARD PRESTON Whatever insults my State insults me.
PRESTON BROOKS My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
PRESTON MANNING I've but only peered over giant shoulders; but at least.
PRESTON ROUSE I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By ...
PRESTON STURGES We're a close group — we like spending time together. This team is unique to any other I've been on...
BEKY PRESTON A lot of teams get along. But this team just clicks.
BEKY PRESTON She definitely was frustrated, but I think she had the same frustration that everyone else had. For ...
BEKY PRESTON The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
RICHARD PRESTON Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity...
RICHARD PRESTON As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of l...
RICHARD PRESTON The alienist is not a joke - He finds you cracked, and leaves you broke
KEITH PRESTON When you have Southside on your jersey, you expect to win. It's a game that we look at as a one or t...
PRESTON EARLY Our gymnasium was remarkable and had more stuff in it than one could dream up in a nightmare. Furthe...
PRESTON STURGES When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-spe...
RICHARD PRESTON The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpabl...
CARRIE PRESTON If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, th...
RICHARD PRESTON They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law ...
PRESTON BROOKS Life on the planet is being homogenized by the expanding human population and the frequent and rapid...
RICHARD PRESTON 'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally...
CARRIE PRESTON I have been around a lot of different personalities ? Walter Alston, Leo Durocher, Tommy Lasorda. I'...
PRESTON GOMEZ I have been around a lot of different personalities - Walter Alston, Leo Durocher, Tommy Lasorda. I'...
PRESTON GOMEZ I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers.” “How’s that?...
DOUGLAS PRESTON We've got to defend the run, defend the Wing-T and put them into long-yardage situations so they hav...
DOUG PRESTON Everything about my husband is sexy, especially his lips.
KELLY PRESTON Creating an entrance is the most important thing of a party. You want to get their (the guests) atte...
PRESTON BAILEY wouldn't it be hilarious if he ran his pipes through (fill in the blank)?
PRESTON STURGES I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowle...
RICHARD PRESTON I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could...
PRESTON STURGES I started to think how awesome it would be to hold the Classic record and take over Rojas' record to...
PRESTON CLARK The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually g...
RICHARD PRESTON He's got great composure. He's always cool and calm. He's been a great leader for this offense. That...
GRANT PRESTON I got a chance to see [Brown] in the summer and he's a good player. This team has full confidence in...
GRANT PRESTON He gave me a jolt (Monday) in practice. I didn't know where I was for a while. He looks awesome.
GRANT PRESTON Up front, we did not get it done.
GRANT PRESTON We're not looking at what we've lost. We're looking at our strong points. That's what we've been try...
GRANT PRESTON We're excited to go out and see where we stand.
GRANT PRESTON Oh yeah, I'm fine with it - left field, center field, it doesn't matter. That was part of what I agr...
PRESTON WILSON In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you...
RICHARD PRESTON FURIOUS FAVOR I wonder if David would be allowed in our churches today. In most cases, when a church...
PRESTON SPRINKLE When I first met you, you had your arm in a sling. Your front teeth were crooked. There was this gre...
F.K. PRESTON the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the boo...
DOUGLAS PRESTON It worked far better than we had expected,
PRESTON BURCH Four years of hard work and dedication is finally paying off.
PRESTON LEMASTER His big thing was to fish for sharks off the piers.
PRESTON FREEBURGER After I boated that big one, I had to sit down for 10 minutes. I promised myself I wasn't going to s...
PRESTON CLARK Summertime, in recent years, has become a testing ground for reality shows – 'Survivor,' (CBS) 'Fe...
PRESTON BECKMAN [Democracy:] An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.
KEITH PRESTON After the review period, Congress can vote to disapprove of the deal, but [the bill] doesn't say whe...
PRESTON HARTMAN We're not sitting down, sulking, feeling bad. We're not even focused on it. We have good enough play...
GRANT PRESTON We're not sitting down sulking and feeling bad. We're rallying around what we've got, and we feel we...
GRANT PRESTON Generally, there's a lot of cash around and, when the market starts performing, it does start feedin...
TIM PRESTON The way to get better pornography is to give pornographers better sex.
JOHN PRESTON I will love you until the end of time, but not a minute longer.
(From It's Time I Told You)
DAVE PRESTON What is infinity? I haven’t a clue.
But maybe that’s the whole point I’ve been attempting...
F.K. PRESTON Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie o...
RICHARD PRESTON I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb...
RICHARD PRESTON If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrien...
RICHARD PRESTON Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure ...
PRESTON STURGES For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Se...
PRESTON MANNING I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. H...
PRESTON STURGES Let go of your perceived control, and let the unknown turn you on.
PRESTON SMILES Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political ...
PRESTON MANNING An Ebola particle is only around eighty nanometres wide and a thousand nanometres long. If it were t...
RICHARD PRESTON When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lo...
RICHARD PRESTON The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainfor...
RICHARD PRESTON The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of t...
RICHARD PRESTON Whatever team they are going to bring they are playing together longer than some of the teams here. ...
PRESTON GOMEZ My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned a...
DOUGLAS PRESTON Life is an adventure! So live it up!
L.M. PRESTON Believe it or not, yeah. They?re big and athletic and they?re very physical.
PRESTON EARLY Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.
F.K. PRESTON [In the 911 call Grayston made around 3:40 a.m. that day, he said:] He was going to blow my brains o...
BRUCE PRESTON The deceased, while he and the accused were drinking together . . . began handling a shotgun,
BRUCE PRESTON I am satisfied, upon reading the 911 tapes . . . the charge of manslaughter cannot be sustained,
BRUCE PRESTON I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.
KELLY PRESTON We need to build off what we've been doing and clean up our mistakes on offense. I feel we've sort o...
DOUG PRESTON We've got to play a lot better defense than we did in the first game. Obviously, we're facing a team...
DOUG PRESTON They have a lot of quickness. They have some very good backs. They're really explosive, much the sam...
DOUG PRESTON It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confi...
DOUG PRESTON Overall, it was night and day from last week. As bad as we were last week, we were good this week. I...
DOUG PRESTON We need to clean that up. You just can't do that against anyone.
DOUG PRESTON Jeff VandeGrift has been in control and has gotten most of the reps. He played a lot better last wee...
DOUG PRESTON 'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming...
RICHARD PRESTON I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House ...
RICHARD PRESTON I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It...
CARRIE PRESTON I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.
KELLY PRESTON A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball p...
RICHARD PRESTON I suppose they're like the I.R.S., ... You move once and they never send you your refund check.
PRESTON STURGES I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when yo...
CARRIE PRESTON Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her...
CARRIE PRESTON When I hit the big fish, I started shaking.
PRESTON CLARK