Geert Hofstede Quotes
Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.
Quotes to Explore
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
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Very quickly I fell in with others like me-newcomers, dreamers, young people drawn to the city in spite of its dangers because sometimes, for some of us, tedium and familiarity feel worse than risking your life.
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I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.
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I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
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Wouldn't it be exciting if all women just went on strike? Just a woman's strike. Everything would fall apart pretty quickly then, wouldn't it?
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All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
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Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.
