Edgar Schein Quotes
The culture of Do and Tell does not teach us how to change pace, decelerate, take stock of what we are doing, observe ourselves and others, try new behaviors, build new relationships.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I love music.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I am a journalist.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?
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There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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The culture of Do and Tell does not teach us how to change pace, decelerate, take stock of what we are doing, observe ourselves and others, try new behaviors, build new relationships.
