Culture Quotes
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Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.
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Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.
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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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For acquiring companies, the excitement is almost always about where they are going - that is, their strategy for gaining greater growth and productivity. But when mergers fail, it's often because no one focused on who they are - that is, their culture, which is critical to successfully bringing different groups of people together.
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I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.
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I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
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I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
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I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.
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The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.
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In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.
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The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.
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One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.
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I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the way, they veer off of that.
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What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.
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My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.
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The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.
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I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.
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Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
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When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
