Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That's the way my brain is wired. If someone says to me, 'Well, that's not possible. It can't happen,' I say, 'Yes it is. I'm going to sit here and show you that it can.'

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.

No matter what the situation may be, there is always something positive you can do about it.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.

The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

Do not Blame the world. Find a solution.