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

• It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Learn
  • Understand

• 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

• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Walking
  • Sorry
  • Thank You

• 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

• Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Deep
  • Friendship
  • Roots

• 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

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Know
  • Opinions

• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Like

• 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

• People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Energy
  • Balance

• One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Color
  • Speak
  • Wells

• Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Saws
  • Branches

• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

  

  Lance Burton
  • Always
  • Mistake
  • Waiting

• Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• 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