Chris Argyris Quotes
Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous.
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I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.
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50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.
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Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
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I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, 'You know what? I'm just gonna be a hairy white chick 'cause this is too much!
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I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
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Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.
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General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.
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It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.
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I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.
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Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.
