Edgar Schein Quotes

Trust in the context of a conversation is believing that the other person will acknowledge me, not take advantage of me, not embarrass or humiliate me, tell me the truth, and, in the broader context, not cheat me, work on my behalf, and support the goals we have agreed to.

Edgar Schein

• Trust
• Goals
• Conversation
• Advantage
• Acknowledge

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• I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Turn

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Expression

• To change what you get, you must change who you are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • You
  • Change
  • Must

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• 'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Power
  • Morality

• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Hate
  • Question

• The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Woman
  • Fly
  • Airport

• Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Years
  • Alive
  • Now

• What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Law
  • Environment

• I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Money
  • Pretty
  • Problem

• It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Religious
  • Model

• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Laws
  • Means

• Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

  

  David Suzuki

• Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Money
  • Business
  • Power

• II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant

• I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Peace

• A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.

  

  C. E. M. Joad
  • Good
  • Soul

• The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.

  

  John Shimkus
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Fall

• A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • May
  • Conversation
  • Forgiving

• Trust in the context of a conversation is believing that the other person will acknowledge me, not take advantage of me, not embarrass or humiliate me, tell me the truth, and, in the broader context, not cheat me, work on my behalf, and support the goals we have agreed to.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Trust
  • Goals
  • Conversation