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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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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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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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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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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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
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Stop being afraid of getting older. With age comes wisdom and confidence.
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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.
