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"Hopelessness has surprised me with patience."
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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."
"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."
"When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther."
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"Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die."
"I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas."
"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
"Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control."
"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."
"Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us."
"Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome."
"Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place."
"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
"Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering."
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