Schein Quotes

#1. One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

Warren Bennis

#2. Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.

Edgar H Schein

#3. Minimize inappropriate encouragement.

Edgar H Schein

#4. C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said.

Gayle Forman

#5. When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house & the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, & all the people are his family

Drew Bundini Brown

#6. The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

Edgar Schein

#7. In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

Edgar H Schein

#8. I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

Lady Gaga

#9. We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

Edgar Schein

#10. I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Edgar Schein

#11. I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

Sandra Fluke

#13. 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

#14. I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.

Adam Schein

#15. Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.

Edgar Schein

#16. I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

Libba Bray

#17. Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.

Nancy Atherton

#18. Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us ...
Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed ...
When we die,
No-one will know it's happened

Kazuya Minekura

#19. It's always nice to have people love the things that you do.

Justin Bartha

#20. the first responsibility of a human
being is to be a better ancestor.

John Perry Barlow

#21. a soul is far too large to hide.

Maggie Schein

#22. Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Edgar Schein

#23. Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#24. 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

#25. People always ask you, 'What's your dream job?' This is my dream job. It really is a dream opportunity to have your own nationwide daily sports talk show for an hour.

Adam Schein

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do. That was the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life.

Adam Schein

#29. The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.

Asif Kapadia

#30. When we don't get acknowledgment or feel that we are giving more than we are getting out of conversations or feel talked down to, we become anxious, disrespected, and humiliated. Humble

Edgar H Schein

#31. In building the helping relationship, encouragement - via positive reinforcement - certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting. My

Edgar H Schein

#32. I'm probably the worst at games. I don't really like computer games either. And when I lose, I won't go again but just say I don't want to play anymore.

Yoseob

#33. I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Jennifer Damiano

#34. God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

J.G. Holland