Quotes About Culture

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

Everything I have is natural. I do everything by instinct. I am not like the 'gringos,' with all of their apparatus.

I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

You are told before coming to Europe that big teams here quite often rotate players. I respect this culture but it is instinctive for me to get annoyed if I don't play every game.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

I really want to institute a culture that has nothing to do with shots or minutes or anything like that. It starts with a foundation of service.

There is no better institute than Hindu College.

It's more than a game. It's an institution.

I don't think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.

Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.

Cultural arenas and institutions that were always liberal are being prodded or dragged further to the left.

By appeasing the anti-racism lobby and affirming its culture of grievance, public institutions and business leaders are not making Britain a fairer place. In fact they are harming the very people they aspire to help.

There are only a handful of educational institutions that can be called emblems of a Thinking India.

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.