Geert Hofstede Quotes

Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.

Geert Hofstede

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• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Values
  • Talking

• When you fall in love, you become weak.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • Always
  • Legacy

• 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.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Long
  • Power
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• 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.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Space
  • Project
  • Outer Space

• 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.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Together
  • Small
  • Flower

• Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Me
  • Purpose

• As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Political
  • Latin

• Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Passion
  • Car
  • Bike

• I'm not really the sex symbol type.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Sex
  • Really
  • Symbol

• 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.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• 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.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Information
  • Office

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ignorance
  • Natural
  • Gone

• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Men

• Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Believe
  • Energy

• For every family in liberal San Francisco that went solar with SunRun in 2010, nearly eight families in more conservative Fresno made the switch to our solar power service.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Family
  • Power
  • Service

• We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Giving

• Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.

  

  Geert Hofstede
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Programming