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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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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Thrice three protections, Returning to the old places, With a steed used to the field.
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I don't care what people think. people are stupid.
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In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.
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When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.
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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
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I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.
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Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.
