Quotes About Culture

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.

en el sur de España aún se mantendría, en mayor o menor medida, la distinción entre /b/ y /v/.

L'America non l'attirava, essendo un continente privo di Medioevo e Rinascimento.

Welcome to the world of translation—a compromised world of half-rights and half-wrongs.

Translation has been used, and should be used, to resist or redirect colonial or postcolonial power.

Translation has been used to oppress to ways in which it has been or can be used to fight oppression, to liberate minds and bodies.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.

The phones are smarter but we are dumber.

Nothing affects the learning culture of an organization more than the skill with which its executive team receives feedback. And

Nothing affects the learning culture of an organization more than the skill with which its executive team receives feedback. And of course, as you move up, candid coaching becomes increasingly scarce, so you have to work harder to get it. But doing so sets the tone and creates an organizational culture of learning, problem solving, and adaptive high performance.

Nothing affects the learning culture of an organization more than the skill with which its executive team receives feedback.

Is Jesus truly preeminent in your life? Is He number one? If He's "a good two or three," there will be nothing victorious about your experience. In this careening culture and in these perilous days, we must say as never before: "All to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely give.

One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

If we are not careful, this false culture can dull our senses and lull us into a kind of trance, and we begin to exist in a nether world of attractive lies and half-truths.

What Disneyland proposes is a technique of abbreviated shorthand culture for the masses, a mindless thrill, like an electric shock, that insists at the same time on the recipient's rich psychic relation to his country's history and language and literature. In a forthcoming time of highly governed masses in an overpopulated world, this technique may be extremely useful both as a substitute for education and, eventually, as a substitute for experience.

If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it'll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else.

I feel such stillness, the stillness of listening to a story whose end I know. I am looking at times when people had a story to enact and the streets they walked upon were narrative passages. What kind of word is infrastructure ? It is a word that proves we have lost our city. Our streets are for transit. Our stories are disassembled, the skyscrapers crowding us scoff at the idea of a credible culture.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It has been the scaffolding inside which nations and philosophies have been built, and the language of literature has added the ornamental pediment by which the culture is remembered.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind