Chris Argyris Quotes

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Chris Argyris

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• Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

  

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• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  

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• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

  

  Samuel Chase
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• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
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• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
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• You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

  

  Sally Field
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  • Lose
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• The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Up
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• The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Kind
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• If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Look
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  • Management

• The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • True
  • Always
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• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Books
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• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Promise
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• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
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• Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business
  • Team
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• I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • World
  • Good
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• I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Regret
  • Responsible

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• There's hardly a more effective way to solve the problems we face in our educational system than to reduce class size. A ratio of no more than 17 students per teacher ensures more 1-on-1 contact, better classroom discipline, you name it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Teacher
  • Discipline

• Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Attitude

• Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Simple
  • Deserve
  • Asking

• In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

  

  Chris Argyris
  • Facts
  • Management
  • Behavior