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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I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
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Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.
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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.
