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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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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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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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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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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General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
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As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.
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It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.
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I've been playing music since I was born.
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If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'
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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
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I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.
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It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
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Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.
