Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Hsieh

Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?

Stephen Harper

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism,

Susan Griffin

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Susan Choi

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

St. Vincent

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

Robert Bringhurst

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

Tibor Kalman

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

S. I. Hayakawa

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

Russell Simmons

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

Tim Burton

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

Vijay Mallya

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

Stephen Covey

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Steve Stoute

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.

Starhawk

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

Tammy Bruce

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action and other patronizing measures

Tabitha Soren

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

Tadao Ando

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

Roy Orbison

I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage...it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.

Roscoe Bartlett

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

Steve Guttenberg

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

Stanley Crouch

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Stanislav Grof

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

Sigmund Freud

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.

Steven Pressfield

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 Pinker

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

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.

Richard Stallman

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.

Sherman Alexie

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

Seth Godin

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

Ravi Zacharias

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Michael Sheen

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?