David Whyte
David Whyte
David Whytewas an English professional footballer who played as a striker...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
inspirational plans
What you plan is too small for you to live.
inspirational disappointment self
Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.
inspirational angel perfection
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.
inspirational joy waiting
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
inspirational giving-up other-worlds
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.
inspirational wholeheartedness antidote
The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.
inspirational real thinking
Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.
difficulty great leadership smacks
In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.
admit beyond difficult fallible greatest lose powers sincere understand unspoken
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
richness saving speak time
We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.
great poetry
The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.
coming groups lead mostly poems retreats topics
I have hundreds of poems memorized. Mostly by others, but also my own. I use the poems when I lead retreats for management groups on topics like creating teams, or coming up with a more entrepreneurial system, or creating more excitement.
deal destinies living people personal simply struggles time trying vision work
I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.
apart broken exploded field great human prior promoted rise territory
One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.