Chris Argyris Quotes
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
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...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.
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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.
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Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
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I started in 1921 to write on the foundations of an approach to international trade theory that was to some extent new and for which I received the inspiration during a stroll on the popular promenade Unter den Linden in Berlin in 1920.
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The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?
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One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
