Quotes about culture
culture levels grassroots
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. Robin McKinley
culture subjects
Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us. Sara Sheridan
culture london feels
I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated. Sandra Oh
culture politician poet
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. Salvatore Quasimodo
culture common small-town
I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with. Sam Abell
culture common
[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.
culture photographer common
I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.
culture founders
Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture. Sam Altman
culture protect norm
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. Robert M. Pirsig
culture moral evolution
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.
culture popular-culture
I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture. Steve Guttenberg
culture
Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism. Stephen Covey
culture want stones
When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over. Steve Stoute
culture dependence regions
There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism, Stephen Harper
culture obsession inclusion
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. Stanley Crouch
culture earth return
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. Stanislav Grof
culture deceit conflict
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture. Sigmund Freud
culture pay succeed
It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from. Steven Pressfield
culture doe acquire
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. Steven Pinker
culture may superstitions
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.
culture cuisine belief
A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions. Vikas Khanna
culture sometimes wonder
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? Rebecca Solnit
culture world way
I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead. Richard Stallman
culture definitions ifs
If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions. Starhawk
culture world urban
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. Salman Rushdie
culture determined
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
culture
Culture is coded wisdom Wangari Maathai
culture shock culture-shock
I foresee death by culture shock. Woody Allen
culture american-culture screens
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen. Yahoo Serious
culture roles who-we-are
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be. Wendell Pierce
culture paper would-be
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture. Wade Davis
culture threat
Change is no threat to culture.
culture ends
The end of culture is right living W. Somerset Maugham