Edgar Schein Quotes

This may seem like a harsh view of our culture, and there are certainly trends in other directions, but when we deal with culture at the tacit assumption level we have to think clearly about what our assumptions actually are, quite apart from our espoused values. The result of a pragmatic, individualistic, competitive, task-oriented culture is that humility is low on the value scale.

Edgar Schein

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Stronger
  • Redhead

• Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Football

• News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mind
  • American
  • Chance

• Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Snooze

• I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Never
  • Either
  • Acted

• I've been racketeered on.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Been

• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • True
  • End
  • Honor

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Done
  • Enough

• I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Wise

• I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • You
  • Anything

• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music

• I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines.

  

  Abraham Whipple
  • British
  • Colony
  • Bermuda

• This may seem like a harsh view of our culture, and there are certainly trends in other directions, but when we deal with culture at the tacit assumption level we have to think clearly about what our assumptions actually are, quite apart from our espoused values. The result of a pragmatic, individualistic, competitive, task-oriented culture is that humility is low on the value scale.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Humility