Quotes About Culture

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

A week in Paris will ease the bite of it.All I care is to smile in spite of it.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!

Costume and custom are complex. The headgear of the other sex inspires us to experiment.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

I thought I could organise freedom. How Scandinavian of me.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

I'll tell ya, in New York City, where I've lived far too long, 'f***' isn't even a word, it's a comma.

There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, "GOD***N, YA SONOFABITCH!" and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar.

Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.

Oh, that's a machete. That comes from the Bahamas. We spent a couple of Christmas holidays down there, and there were some youngsters that thought I did a favor for them, and they gave me that as we were leaving. Everybody has a machete. They use it to cut sugar corn, clean their fingernails, and everything else. They gave that to me as we were leaving. I had a terrible time getting it on the airplane, of course.

This is for all you kids out there watching TV, when you should go open a book. Haha.

Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

These companies were searching for something indefinable and immeasurable, something that went beyond the standard definitions of success in business, something that could easily be lost unless it was protected against the homogenizing influences brought to bear on every company. I call that quality mojo. (See the introduction.) If you are not involved in helping to generate mojo, you have nothing to contribute except, perhaps, capital, and the capital usually comes at too high a price.

If you want a company that cares, you need people who care, and they need to be motivated by more than money.

The CEOs of our small giants had all faced the same issue. One way or another, they had to keep their best people engaged and challenged or run the risk of losing them. In most cases, the answer had been a kind of controlled growth that preserved the company's culture while creating new opportunities for employees.

The notion that bigger—and more—is better has so pervaded our culture that most people assume all entrepreneurs want to capitalize on every business opportunity, grow their companies as fast as they can, and build the next Google or Facebook.

All those three-step things really do work," said Amy Emberling, a managing partner at Zingerman's Bakehouse, "but they also gave us a language we could use to talk to each other. Everyone in the different businesses had the same vocabulary, which helped create the culture in the community as a whole.

circumstances change. Industries change. Technologies change. And what may once have been a sound business model can become unsound faster than anyone could have imagined. During the transition, moreover, the company is likely to be confronted with unpleasant choices, mainly because its culture has been built around a business model that is no longer sustainable.

What had been lost in the financial crisis and the leadership transition was trust, and it was a steep price to pay. Without trust, you can't have the kind of culture that Reell once had. For that matter, you can't be a small giant without trust. Once you've lost it, moreover, it's extremely difficult to get back—especially if you lack consensus about the source of the problem and alignment around a course to follow.