Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!

I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.

There's no fixed pattern or formula to life.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

There's nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.