Schein Culture Quotes & Sayings

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. — Oliver Sacks

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen. — Natalie Portman

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work. — Marion Cotillard

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point? — Timothy Spall

The culture of Do and Tell does not teach us how to change pace, decelerate, take stock of what we are doing, observe ourselves and others, try new behaviors, build new relationships. — Edgar H Schein

The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening. — Edgar Schein

To change your life you don't need to change everything, just change your thoughts and the way you see things. — Debasish Mridha

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself. — Brad Warner

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care — Edgar Schein

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 H Schein

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture. — Edgar Schein

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike. — H. P. Blavatsky

The ones who fight each other because of their own beliefs are like specks of dirt fighting each other about the nature of their world, refusing to see that they are all in the same mud puddle on the side of the road. — Joshua Kadison

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy. — Meher Baba

Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things. — Edgar H Schein

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. — Susanna Kaysen

Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment. — Edgar Schein

What mattered is I was different. The naive girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. ~Livvie — C.J. Roberts

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life. — Tina Fey

The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence. — David Wroblewski

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind. — Terry Pratchett

In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way. — Eddie Izzard