Quotes About Culture

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

The point of teaming up with American musicians was that there was no better way than that of music to let people from both the sides know what either of them thinks about the other.

As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

China in particular is an absolutely fascinating place to be. Culturally and politically and economically it's becoming more and more relevant. If you look at how China is perceived in different parts of the world, you can recognize it's very dynamic. It's also challenging what it thinks of itself.

Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the dark skin is evidence of Indian blood, a sign that one technically belongs to a third class. Even my grandmother had some kind of differentiation with me, because I was darker than my siblings.

A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking.

My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.

I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.

When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language.