"A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems."

-- Edgar Schein

#Thinking Quotes #Groups Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“Happy is the nation without a history.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 368-69, Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene, 1922.
“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”
“The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.”
“It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.”
“Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.”
“She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.”
“I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities”

Source : "Tamara Tunie on Her Feinstein's Show and Audition Advice". Interview with Jordyn Taylor, www.backstage.com. October 25, 2012.
“I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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