Quotes About Culture

The irony across all self-protection is that at the same time as we're worrying about machine learning and artificial intelligence taking jobs and dehumanizing work, we're intentionally or unintentionally creating cultures that, instead of leveraging the unique gifts of the human heart like vulnerability, empathy, and emotional literacy, are trying to lock those gifts away.

We need braver readers and more courageous cultures.

When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.

In today's culture—where our self-worth is tied to our net worth, and we base our worthiness on our level of productivity—spending time doing purposeless activities is rare. In fact, for many of us it sounds like an anxiety attack waiting to happen. We

We know that vulnerability is the cornerstone of courage-building, but we often fail to realize that without vulnerability there is no creativity or innovation. Why? Because there is nothing more uncertain than the creative process, and there is absolutely no innovation without failure. Show me a culture in which vulnerability is framed as weakness and I'll show you a culture struggling to come up with fresh ideas and new perspectives.

believe that feedback thrives in cultures where the goal is not "getting comfortable with hard conversations" but normalizing discomfort. If leaders expect real learning, critical thinking, and change, then discomfort should be normalized: "We believe growth and learning are uncomfortable so it's going to happen here—you're going to feel that way. We want you to know that it's normal and it's an expectation here.

all men, just of different cultures, wearing different uniforms, having different-coloured skins perhaps, but simply men nevertheless

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

We do not need to theorize about Jesus; we need to make him present in our time, our culture, and our circumstances. Only

Which I wish to remark,And my language is plain,That for ways that are darkAnd for tricks that are vain,The heathen Chinee is peculiar,Which the same I would rise to explain.

The question is not whether but how Buddhism will change as it enters further into Western societies.

it's not whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness. Same goes if you swap whiteness out for other things-- fancy possessions for sure, pedigree, maybe youth too... we beat Them (and spare ourselves a lot of tedium and terror) by declining to worship.

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

All my scripts have artistic backgrounds -- ballet, concert hall, opera -- and all the suspects and corpses are cultured, maybe I'll do one about the rare book business in your honor, do you want to be the murderer or the corpse?

Ben ik voorgoed een vreemde in het land van mijn geboorte, op de grond vanwaar ik niet verplant wil zijn?

Photography is the only language understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man. Independent of political influence - where people are free - it reflects truthfully life and events, allows us to share in the hopes and despair of others, and illuminates political and social conditions. We become the eye-witnesses of the humanity and inhumanity of mankind.