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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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• 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

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• 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'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • People
  • Bad
  • Same

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

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Future
  • Injustice

• 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

• I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Art
  • Single

• People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• 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

• In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny.

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • People
  • Work
  • Words

• No matter what these people say about me, my music does not glorify any image, my music is spiritual if you listen to it. It's all about emotion, it's all about life.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Life

• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• When 'Goodfellas' is on TNT, and they've taken out all the curse words and put Tide commercials in the middle of it, I'll still watch 'Goodfellas' because it's that great of a movie.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Words

• It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

  

  Jon McGregor
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

  

  Bill Huizenga
  • Time
  • Real
  • College

• 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