Quotes About Culture

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

In Boston, our strength is really our diversity.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been the city's greatest strength.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.

I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms...my entire body is hairless.