Chris Argyris Quotes

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

Chris Argyris

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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?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• 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.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• 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.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nostalgia

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Anger
  • Peaceful

• 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.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Wall

• 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.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Educated

• To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Working
  • Chosen
  • Patriotism

• I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Success
  • Taken

• 50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge
  • Loyalty

• 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!

  

  Marlon Wayans

• I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Church

• 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.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Community

• General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Enemy
  • Broken

• We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • American

• This soup tastes like windows...

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Windows
  • Soup
  • Tasted

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• I like spending time with my husband.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Husband
  • Spending Time

• I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.

  

  Kathryn Erskine
  • Word
  • Soon
  • I Don't Like

• Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

  

  Chris Argyris
  • People
  • Leadership
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