Quotes About Culture

he'd said they were studying the "taywah" or "terror" of the region, even when he'd spelled it out as t-e-r-r-o-i-r.

Both the Star Wars and Friday the Thirteenth franchises have much to answer for.

You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn't the streets of Laredo.

Don't stop giving sincere compliments when the student seems to be rejecting you—you are being tested to see if you can hold up to a bit of rejection. Some students will reject you before you can reject them. Don't let their attitude change your attitude of appreciation. They have to know that you believe that they can be successful in the culture.

Renaissance" is not a good historical term, since it implies death and rebirth and great cataclysmic changes. There are few abysses or chasms in history; there are merely times when cultural change takes place more quickly and vigorously than at others.

The vast differences in power contributed to faulty social theories of these differences that are still with us today. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority--whether religious, racial, genetic, cultural, or institutional--rather than an accident of timing or geography.

The Millennials, as a result, are less likely to be divided or even torn asunder by the culture wars of the boomer generation. They will live naturally with diversity. They will accept a more activist government. They will be more attuned to environmental needs. All this points in the direction of the mindful economy, if the healing strengths of the Millennial generation's tolerance and optimism are mobilized for collective political action. What

Our culture has never been more "spiritual" than it is today. But the problem is that while many teens believe in God, their beliefs about Him are defined by the culture, not by the Bible.

The big advantage that the Mongols had over previous empire builders is that they themselves had nothing in the way of deeply ingrained ideas of politics, economics, or culture to spread abroad.

Indifferent to controlling matters of religion or culture, the Mongols focused on building commerce and the physical, administrative, and legal infrastructure to help it flow freely.

globalization is about connecting on multiple levels and breaking down many of the walls that separate populations of various origins, customs, and beliefs. Globalization also entails developing systems of government that centralize administration and enforce common standards of behavior.

Furthermore, the East India Company showed how government and commercial enterprises of the same nation can make common cause in expanding commerce and culture across borders. Indeed, it demonstrated that when it comes to globalization, the line between the state and its companies can be thin or invisible.

We have to change the culture from one in which people simply do their own job in their own function to make their own numbers look good (a vertical focus) to one in which people are focused horizontally on the customer and on improving value streams that deliver value across functions.

Toyota's concept of a good process is one that expects and reveals problems, without blame, not one that is problem-free.

Rather the power behind TPS is a company's management commitment to continuously invest in its people and promote a culture of continuous improvement.

Actually putting your people first and treating them as if they matter to the organization's success, although easy to talk about and easy to understand, is notoriously difficult to implement.

Narcissism levels are higher for Americans than for citizens of many other countries and regions

The problem is that there are too many organizations where having a mission or values statement written down somewhere is confused with implementing those values.

called, in her era, the generation gap.

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.

Renan has the last word: "Man is a slave neither of his race nor his language, nor of his religion, nor of the course of rivers nor of the direction taken by mountain chains. A large aggregate of men, healthy in mind and warm of heart, creates the kind of moral conscience which we call a nation.

Now in one of my earliest tunes, "New Orleans Blues," you can notice the Spanish tinge. In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning, I call it, for jazz.

Maybe we don't recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

In a culture that elevates beauty and style, the Christian community is at genuine risk fordistraction, even deception. What do we truly admire in our leaders? Are we nodifferent from secular population, drawn tocharisma and style above substance and i tegrity? I hope not.