Quotes About Culture

The process of discovery begins when we observe, often vaguely, a gap between what is and what could be. Our intuition tells us something better is just beyond the range of our mind's eye. To build a culture of discovery, we must encourage, not discourage, the passionate pursuit of hunches (no matter their origin).

The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive.

Very few have any conception of the degree to which gypsies have been the colporteurs of what in Italy is called "the old faith," or witchcraft.

Einstein was once quoted as saying that in the society of Australian aborigines, he would rightfully be regarded as intellectually deficient for not being able to track a wallaby or throw a boomerang. If the aborigine ever did get around to drafting an IQ test, all of western civilization would presumably flunk it... Testing and teaching materials must clearly take cognizance of cultural and class differences if the true potential of the individual child is to be recognized and realized.

Slang is the illegitimate sister of Poetry.

What used to be offensive is now acceptable, and what used to be acceptable is now offensive... That's the danger of an overemphasis on political correctness. Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.

The library lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge.

But what is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.

If you haven't owed a library fine at least once in your life, you're not a real reader.

To encourage Literature & the Arts, is a duty which every good Citizen owes to his Country...

Classics are books that everybody talks about, and nobody reads.

Literature lights the ages.

Dear taco trucks: Please consider cruising the neighborhoods like ice cream trucks.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Recently, photography has become... mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

Give an American a newspaper and a pie and he will make himself comfortable anywhere.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Thus, Whitman set out to express in his poetry the soul of his Culture awakening into self-consciousness on its own soil. Not only is the Faustian soul self-conscious; it is eternally restless, constantly striving upward, and possesses a sense of spiritual infinity. All these characteristics are given expression in Whitman's poetry.

Disrespect for poets is a kind of tradition.

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech.

A proverb is an ornament to language.

As the country so the proverb.