Quotes About Culture

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Change the value system of the people you are ministering to

The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.

If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don't believe that hard work is worth it.