Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

I always encourage other people to share a story and voices. That is so important.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

Everyone must have a voice, and everyone deserves clarity.

Whoever likes my music, I'm gonna reciprocate that same love back to them. I'm not trying to alienate anybody.

The more we reach out and become vulnerable and share our stories, the more people we will meet that will unite and help us to achieve more equality.

We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

I want to give people who might not feel included a place to go.

I want our staff to be able to feel like themselves.

I love diversity.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.