Quotes About Culture

Our major finding is that your history of relational health—your connectedness to family, community, and culture—is more predictive of your mental health than your history of adversity

You don't get trained in cultural sensitivity—you go spend time immersed in the culture, spend time with other people.

means that cultural-sensitivity training, which may help get at the intellectual elements of learning, needs to be coupled with real experiences and real relationships. That is what will help change you. It's hard for many people to do, and it certainly doesn't fix the whole system, but it's a start.

We have to think about ways to raise our children with more opportunities to be exposed to the magnificence of human diversity earlier in their lives.

One of the things we don't appreciate in Western cultures is how powerful and important touch is to our physical and emotional growth.

Our current public education system is good at producing workers, but it can be a miserable place for creators, artists, and future leaders.

When, for example, I added inflammatory chemicals to the tissue culture, the cells rapidly became the equivalent of macrophages, the scavengers of the immune system. What was also exciting to me was that the cells transformed even when I destroyed their DNA with gamma rays. These endothelial cells were

Our intention is to demonstrate how vital it is for all involved in early music—performers, scholars, programmers, and audiences—to continue to think about what performing this music means—as much to the culture that created it as in today's world. Examining

When leaders realize that people are what matter most in business, everything else falls in line.

Robert E. Lee was simply echoing conventional wisdom when he wrote that "the relation of master and slave, controlled by humane laws and influenced by Christianity and enlightened public sentiment, is the best that can exist between the white and black races.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

What I liked most was that George had class, the way he walked and talked, reading Shakespeare and all those books. He knew about van Gogh and Picasso, he gave me a book about Dali. And just the way he conducted himself, you could see it. He was very elegant in his manners.

hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island.

This was a man who didn't see it coming . . . he WAS it coming, and without him, white America, you would not look or act or think the way you do.

I wanted to collide with the times and create a voice that had musical, social and cultural impact.

If America suffers from drugs, perhaps you should ask what America is lacking, ["What an asshole,"] Eric King commented suddenly. They ignored him.

There is a certain threshold, an intensity of sin and cynicism, beyond which no society can survive.…

People who might once have bought a newspaper to beguile themselves now look at their Android. Magzines readers look at their Android, too. Amazingly, even manufactures of chewing gum have taken a hit, because nervously chewing while staring out the window has become nervously tapping while staring into a handled screen.

Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.

cultura y naturaleza, en tanto categorías parejamente codificadas.

While only a small number of people wrestled with the philosophical problems that Schaeffer faced, by the 1960s the majority of young people wrestled with the question of authority.

The healthiest congregations with the most thoughtful worship engage in an eclectic mix of worship expression that keeps faith fresh, serves multiple generations, stays rooted in the past, blossoms toward the future, stimulates childlike love, strives for excellence in presentation, bridges cultural barriers, and encourages ever-greater understanding.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.