#um

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#assume #context #dangerous #feels #given

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anger #best #bringing #choose #conditions

„I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa,” Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look shocked whenever Dad went Old-Faithful-profane, and I began to wonder if Lisa and I shouldn't swear more so Franklin and Teddy weren't so put off by curse words. ↗

— Jess Walter

#swearing #faith

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#been #behind #century #could #decade

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. ↗

— E. B. White

#analyzing #dies #dissecting #few #few people

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy. ↗

— Barry White

#babies #could #daddy #decided #dumped

Griffin Drake and his MacBook were the best of friends, more intimate than lovers. He slept with it. He cared for it with specially made cleaning cloths and cans of air to keep it dust free. Plants and fish had died under his watch with alarming regularity, but the computer-the computer was tended like a child. ↗

— Tere Michaels

#faith

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. ↗

— E. B. White

#assume #cat #editorial #first #first amendment

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. ↗

— E. B. White

#most #things #time-consuming