Quotes About Culture

If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as fragile as a flower.

Taking a nap looks more refined when holding a book

He likes to quote the Sufi poet Rumi: 'Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller', an aphorism also attributed to the Moroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans . Noisemaking man.

How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide of material wealth … men whose bank accounts are all they rely on for social position and influence.

Some of these families paused long enough to pick up the German language and to take German names. (In future generations, in New York, it would become a matter of some importance whether such and such a Jewish family, with a German-sounding name, had been a true native German family, like the Seligmans, or a stranger from the east, passing through.) Swelled by immigrants from the east, the Jewish population in Western Europe more than tripled during the nineteenth century.

New York seemed capable of creating everything but a style of its own.

David's final words to his son were a tearful entreaty to observe the Sabbath and the dietary laws. Fanny's final gesture was to sew one hundred American dollars into the seat of Joseph's pants.

But some strange sea change had taken place. He was no longer August Schönberg but August Belmont, the French equivalent of Schönberg (meaning "beautiful mountain"). As August Belmont, furthermore, he was no longer a Jew but a gentile, and no longer German but, as people in New York began to say, "Some sort of Frenchman—we think.

Great stress is placed on manners. "Never point," one San Francisco mother teaches her children, "except at French pastry." Do's and don'ts are rampantly important. "We'd never wear diamonds before lunch," says one woman. "Anyone who'd wear a mink stole in the daytime is automatically out," says another.

organizations are made up of people. If this should seem obvious, the implications of acknowledging it are not.

Kanal' means 'sewer' as well as 'channel'. 'Kanakafü' has echoes of 'Kacke', a baby word for faeces.

Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.

This is probably the most annoying thing of all to the French. Not only do we pronounce the battles incorrectly (Crécy should be 'Cray-see' and Waterloo 'Watt-air-loh'), with Agincourt ('Ah-zan-coor') we even get the spelling wrong.

Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

Baby carrots are making me gay.

If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.

Half of tradition is a lie.

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

Attend to the Mission Statement One of the most important dimensions of this anthropological work is researching the culturally approved language of the institution. A junior member of an organization who wishes to persuade those in power of the merits of a new and potentially threatening initiative would be well advised to couch his or her proposal in the language that is spoken and approved by those in power.

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

If you are thinking about Agile as a set of tools and processes, you're looking for the wrong thing. You can't go to the store and "buy some Agile management.