Edgar Schein Quotes
Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama. Yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions.
Quotes to Explore
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
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My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
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A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama. Yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions.
