Chris Argyris Quotes
Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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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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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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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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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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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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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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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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Responsibility educates.
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.
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There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
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I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.
