Culture Quotes - Page 71

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross money-getting concern: these particular aspects of a vast and voracious concentration upon profits are so many illustrations of our sinning confusion of values.

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Confidence is not just in people's heads; it comes from the culture of the organization. It's easier to expect success when working in an organization that has a culture of accountability, collaboration, and initiative. Without this, it's easier - and more self-protective - to assume failure so the person is not disappointed and instead pleasantly surprised.

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

Q: When you are already in the lead, how do you to stay ahead?

Good customers want good quality service. Great customers want it even more.

The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.

Are you moving forward, or just moving?

Employees are the key to your success with customers. Treat them well!

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.