Edgar Schein Quotes

When we don’t get acknowledgment or feel that we are giving more than we are getting out of conversations or feel talked down to, we become anxious, disrespected, and humiliated.

Edgar Schein

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• I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.

  

  Eddie Huang
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• I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Up
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• How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.

  

  Wallace Stegner
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• The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

  

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• Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
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• Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

  

  Nasser Hussain
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• The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

  

  Anna Brownell Jameson
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  Alan Webb
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• Obtained professional advice to ensure that we followed applicable laws.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Advice
  • Laws
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• The competition is a big part of it racing - the passion you have for the sport and the knowledge you have. You're not just going to wake up one day and say, " think I'll do something different." This is what I've done my whole life. My competitive nature and my passion for the sport, those are the things that keep you wanting to do better.

  

  Bobby Labonte
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• Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

  

  H. W. Brands
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• A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

  

  Karl E. Weick
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  • Winning
  • Importance

• I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

  

  Errol Morris
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  • Think
  • Conversations

• When we don’t get acknowledgment or feel that we are giving more than we are getting out of conversations or feel talked down to, we become anxious, disrespected, and humiliated.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Conversations
  • Acknowledgement
  • Disrespected