Edgar Schein Quotes

How does one produce a climate in which people will speak up, bring up information that is safety related, and even correct superiors or those of higher status when they are about to make a mistake?

Edgar Schein

• Mistake
• Safety
• Climate
• Speak Up
• Imformation

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• The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

  

  Harry Browne
  • English
  • Chinese
  • Constitution

• Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Wall
  • Trump
  • Down

• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Strength
  • Motherhood

• Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Political
  • Fashion
  • Group

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Engineers

• Politics ruins the character.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Character
  • Politics
  • Ruins

• We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Want
  • Free

• During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Never
  • Years
  • Cricket

• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Ignorance

• Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Things
  • Leads
  • Unclear

• You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • English
  • Actor
  • Around

• Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

  

  G. H. Hardy

• If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Marriage

• The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Only a madman would give good for evil.

  

  Euripides
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Madman

• 'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

  

  Melissa De Sousa
  • Romantic
  • First
  • Director

• When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Mistake
  • Circumstances
  • Humility

• Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

  

  Rumi
  • Fear
  • Safety
  • Planning

• How does one produce a climate in which people will speak up, bring up information that is safety related, and even correct superiors or those of higher status when they are about to make a mistake?

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Mistake
  • Safety
  • Climate