Chris Argyris Quotes

#1. One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

Chris Argyris

#2. Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.

Chris Argyris

#3. Smart people don't learn ... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

Chris Argyris

#4. If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

Russell Johnson

#5. Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

Chris Argyris

#6. If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Oscar Wilde

#7. In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Chris Argyris

#8. Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

Chris Argyris

#9. Part of the training of a Special Circumstances agent was learning a) that the rules were supposed to be broken sometimes, b) just how to go about breaking the rules, and c) how to get away with it, whether the rule-breaking had led to a successful outcome or not.

Iain M. Banks

#10. Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

Chris Argyris

#11. Yes, there are some backs on the street
which cry for the knife.

Octave Mirbeau

#12. The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

Alexander Hamilton

#13. As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest
From the root to the top of the tree,
Then flies to another tree,
So have I bored into life to find what lay therein,
And now it is time to die,
And I will fly to another tree.

Sidney Lanier

#14. There is always a solution to every challenging situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.

Jim DeMint

#16. Ridley Duchannes. Is there even one stupid tiny little part of you that loves one stupid tiny little part of me?

Kami Garcia

#17. I need to fuck you again. Preferably the second we land in London, but I'm not opposed to doing it after you get finished serving either.

Whitney G.

#18. Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

Bryan Adams

#19. I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.

Veronica Roth

#20. The leadings of the Holy Spirit will help you to achieve your goals in the quickest way.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me.

Michael Grant

#22. people get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.

Chris Argyris