Chris Argyris Quotes

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

Chris Argyris

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• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Today
  • English

• Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • Success

• Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• In my own experience, when we have an open directing assignment of any kind, not just the big films, I would say it is the exception, not the rule, that there is a woman in the group of directors that we are interviewing. I think that's from the pool being so small.

  

  Donna Langley
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Pool

• People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• A lot of people would be happy that they got through a long career and had a chance to play as many times in the finals. To me, I wanted to win for the franchise and for the people. And when you can't do that, it's devastating, particularly for someone like me.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I want my kids to experience passion. I want them to see that I have things I feel passionate about because it is such a great feeling to really love something.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Kids

• There are many people I admire and seek advice from, but for the most part, I just follow my gut instead of trying to mimic someone else's leadership style.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • People
  • Trying
  • Style

• People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

  

  Denise Mina
  • People
  • World

• I haven't got a problem with scrutiny. If it gets hot in the kitchen, don't cook a meal. People should be able to criticise us - it's completely appropriate.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • People
  • Kitchen

• The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

  

  Agnes Obel
  • People

• When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

  

  Bryan Batt
  • People
  • Dying

• I would love to work with my dad! We've never done anything live together. I'm always open to working with talented people, and I think my dad certainly qualifies.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Heaven

• We're dealing with whether we're going to accept the idea of socialism and Marxism and atheism. Or go back to the American way, Judeo-Christian values, which meritocracy is part of it. The idea that content and character and talent are colorblind.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Character
  • American
  • Christian

• The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Faith
  • Universe
  • Inspiration

• Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

  

  Chris Argyris
  • People
  • Experience
  • Learning