Quotes About Culture

Do you think your people perform better when they're healthier and happier?" Almost invariably, the answer is "Yes." Then we ask one more question: "Does your organization regularly invest in people's health and happiness?" The answer is nearly always "No.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I suppose my biggest frustration is that we as white people come into a culture and demand that the natives do things our way. I want to see their lives bettered as much as anyone, but who says we have somehow arrived at the perfect way to live? Especially for specific areas of the world?

Fashion speaks for itself.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

A paradigm is a constellation of concepts and values shared by a community of people.

It's as if the entire human race were one big village of people whispering over and over the same message to each other, so that no one can help but believe it.

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.

She's the Indian who lives in my attic.

JOHNNA: When a Cheyenne baby is born, their umbilical cord is dried and sewn into this pouch. Turtles for girls, lizards for boys. And we wear it for the rest of our lives. JEAN: Wow. JOHNNA: Because if we lose it, our souls belong nowhere and after we die our souls will walk the Earth looking for where we belong.

Well, I don't live in New York and I don't pretend to understand the way the theater works there.

All Americans are defensive. You can't help it.

There are some additional cultural problems to be overcome in discussing karma in the modern context, as we have stopped talking about ethical issues altogether, not just specifically issues around karma, but ethics generally. There is an ever-increasing level of discussion around rights and justice, and who is entitled to what, and who deserves a share of such-and-such, but very little about how we should behave and treat each other, and how we should live together, and why.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

Culture shifts, but the Word of God remains.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

Mom" didn't feel quite right , Reynie decided. Why not use the Tamil word? He'd heard her refer to her own mother as "Amma," but whether this meant "mom" or "mother," he wasn't sure. Reynie felt a flutter of happy anticipation.

It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker.