Culture Quotes - Page 74

I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture.

Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it's been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths!

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.