Quotes About 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.

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys.

My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It's entrenched in the culture, period.

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

India has a very good tradition in tennis.

'Big Night' is the best food movie ever made. It's such a celebration of food, and the Italian tradition of celebrating people. Plus, everything looked delicious!

In most cultures, men represent tradition and women represent change and future. Women, because of their ability to give birth, are more connected to future. Men tend to keep the status quo.

I think massage is a very important part of life, which is present from centuries as an imminent part of India's tradition.

It's not in the tradition: not even the schoolkids have hot lunches in Norway. They bring a couple of sandwiches from home.

I have an Indian father, and when you grow up in a house with an Indian father, culturally, that's what becomes dominant in the house. So that's the tradition we grew up with.