Edgar Schein Quotes
Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.
Quotes to Explore
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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That's something I want to do: cover all sorts of genres to find the one I love most.
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Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.
