Culture Quotes - Page 59

If your customers are demanding, be thankful.

If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.

We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

Food is culture, and we need to listen to it.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?