Quotes About Culture

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing

Every culture elects some central virtues, and creativity is one of ours. In fact, right now, we're living through a creativity boom. Few qualities are more sought after, few skills more envied. Everyone wants to be more creative—how else, we think, can we become fully realized people?

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

For all their differences, holy rollers and Ghost Dancers had much in common. Americans who took up holiness sought to free the spirit by lifting the heavy hand of scientific rationalism and engaging emotionally with Christ . . . Parallel ideas circulated in the Ghost Dance, which advanced bodily healing and cultural resurgence through spirit intervention.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game.

management doesn't change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

The most important thing ...we can know about a man is what he takes for granted, and the most elemental and important facts about a society are those that are seldom debated and generally regarded as settled.

You can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl.

Zi zhi tong jian (Comprehensive mirror for aid in governance), the famous annalistic history on the period written between 1067 and 1084 A.D.,

We are a mirror of our times.

We see it when bullies are in charge. It becomes part of the culture of an institution, a family, an ethnic group, a country. It becomes not just acceptable, but expected. Applauded even.

Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.

the Maori and their haka. It is death. It is death, they chant. To terrify, to petrify.

Kebek. An Algonquin word. Where the river narrows.

impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

Kebek. Una palabra algonquina que quería decir «donde el río se estrecha».

It was, reflected Gamache, one of the fundamental differences between anglophone and francophone Quebecers; the English believed in individual rights and the French felt they had to protect collective rights. Protect their language and culture.

In old Quebec City, "magnificent" wasn't measured in square feet, but in details.

her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.