Edgar Schein Quotes
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When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.
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I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.
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We become who we hang out with.
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One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.
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Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.
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I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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I've seen a lot of people in my life base their self-worth on what job they book or don't book, what car they drive, or whether they can afford a house deposit or not.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
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I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
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