Quotes About Culture

The poisonous pedagogy is transmitted multi-generationally as a sacred body of truth.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed. —Frederick Nietzsche

The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

what gets rewarded gets done. If you praise and honor the people who epitomize the values of the team, those values get embraced and upheld by other members of the team. There is no better reinforcement.

Necesitamos líderes más valerosos y culturas más valientes.

Contentment is not a popular concept. Our culture actually discourages the idea. People are continually bombarded with the message, "What you have isn't enough. You need more—a bigger house, a better car, a larger salary, whiter teeth, sweeter breath, nicer clothes . . ." The list is endless. But the truth is that possessing healthy contentment is essential to being able to withstand failure. —Failing Forward DECIDE TODAY THAT WHAT YOU HAVE IS ENOUGH.

transformation is possible for anyone willing to learn and live good values, value people, and collaborate with others to create a positive values culture.

We live in an impatient culture. We use drive-through windows to buy meals, pick up our dry cleaning, complete banking transactions, and order prescriptions. I think Lisa Thorne's comment on my blog describes a lot of us: "The good news is I move fast; the bad news is I often move alone."4 Everybody is in a hurry, but that prevents most of us from connecting with others effectively. If you want to connect with people, you need to slow down.

The attitude of the leader, coupled with a positive atmosphere in the organization, can encourage people to accomplish great things.

I want to learn about their organizational culture and values.

The people around us seem to be dressed in every kind of clothing from every nation and era in human history. I see people dressed in modern military uniforms, animal skins, togas, tribal regalia, European and Japanese armor, robes, breeches, long dresses, short dresses, and suits. Some people wear not much clothing at all. It's as though we're on the back lot of a movie studio and actors from a hundred different exotic movies mingle together. But these people are real, not costumed performers.

Rotten attitudes ruin a team. That

For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues.

I was brought up in southern Massachusetts, where it was thought that mythology was a subject that we should all grasp. It was very much a part of my education. The easiest way to parse the world is through mythology.

Now, the neighborhood of Maple Dell was more like a development than anything else in Shady Hill. It was the kind of place where the houses stand cheek by jowl, all of them white frame, all of them built twenty years ago, and parked beside each was a car that seemed more substantial than the house itself, as if this were a fragment of some nomadic culture.

in those days I didn't drink, smoke, swear, or speak Italian.

Here she barked out her greetings in Italian, anxious to disassociate herself from the horseless American cowboys and above all from her own kind, the truly lost and unwanted, who move like leaves around the edges of the world, gathering only long enough to wait in line and see if there is any mail

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Here's a definition of Wokeism : There are people just sitting there, who are deliberately waiting, for the thrill of being offended.

At the name Dekker there occurred that curious moral stiffening, that gathering together of relaxed social awareness, which always happens in England when an upper middle-class person enters the company of a group of lower middle-class persons.

Valentine's Day and Black History Month are sad reminders of how lonely and white I am.

Loyal women are being treated like hoes and hoes are being treated like loyal women. That's the problem with relationships today.

BOYS are like alcohol, you throw them up when you've had too much. GIRLS are like coffee, you throw them away when they are not HOT ANYMORE...

As for the Folsom Prison show, ... would anybody have the [guts] to do that show now? 50 Cent, maybe? I think the whole idea of even playing to a crowd of people like that is so politically unfavorable now - it's like, 'What are you doing, singing for these people? Do they deserve it?' There's such anger in our culture right now, that kind of grace and forgiveness, we don't see that very often.