Edgar Schein Quotes
The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.
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Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
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I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
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I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.
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There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.
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The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them.
