Geert Hofstede Quotes

Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally.

Geert Hofstede

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• When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Everything
  • Normal

• I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Best

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Children
  • Living
  • Adapt

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • House
  • Party
  • Three

• Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Music
  • Action
  • Moments

• My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• One can easily realize God if one is free from guile. Spiritual instruction produces quick results in a guileless heart. Such a heart is like well cultivated land from which all the stones have been removed. No sooner is the seed sown than it germinates. The fruit also appears quickly.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Heart
  • Free

• You live alone, creating your life as you go.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Live
  • Alone

• It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Men
  • Respect

• I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter.  A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Today
  • Challenge
  • Cancer

• No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Great

• A light broke in upon my brain, -It was the carol of a bird;It ceased, and then it came again,The sweetest song ear ever heard.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Song
  • Light
  • Brain

• I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

  

  Ken Follett

• He made a few errors in judgment, but he certainly didn't deserve what happened to him.

  

  David Joyce
  • Deserve
  • Happened
  • Errors

• That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Beautiful
  • Pound
  • Heavyweight

• I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Character
  • Play
  • Actor

• For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Faith

• Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally.

  

  Geert Hofstede
  • Power
  • Distance
  • Distributed