Quotes About Culture

I adore opera and I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful art forms on Earth.

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance.

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

I am rooted in flamenco. At 13, I fell in love with it, but I couldn't sing it. To sing flamenco is like being a kind of opera singer. You have to learn how.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.

You know Facebook has this sort of bizarre culture of like really shunning people who raise legitimate concerns about how, you know, their company is operating.

I think of digital as a means to an end: How do I service and get more loyal customers, how do I achieve operational excellence, and how do I change my culture?

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group.

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. 

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that have influenced us.

He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met. I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Los ingleses tienen 3 cosas de las que mostrarse orgullosos: El té, el whisky y un escritor como yo. Pero resulta que el té es chino; el whisky, escocés; y yo soy irlandés.