Culture Quotes · Page 123

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

— Marcus Buckingham

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

— Curtis Jackson

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible...

— Tom Peters

“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

— Logan Paul

Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members,…

— Tariq Ali

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory,…

— Junot Diaz

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important…

— Carl Sandburg

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take…

— Helen Mirren

At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice…

— Rolf Potts

Values are the foundation of a company. Culture is the manifestation of values - the day to day actions and behavior. Adapt…

— Christine Tsai

Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the…

— Jerry Sabloff

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are…

— Joel Hodgson

Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who…

— Roger Scruton

Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to…

— Mike Myers

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls…

— Greg Mortenson

Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the…

— Johan Huizinga

No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look…

— Swami Vivekananda

My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to…

— Anita Sarkeesian

November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should…

— Deb Haaland

You want everything for your kids that you didn't have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic…

— Todd Haynes

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

— Alan Sugar

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

— Phyllis Chesler

I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your…

— Ben Howard

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

— Cecilia Bartoli

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

— Stephen Vizinczey

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.

— Satya Nadella

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.

— Tim Brown

Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.

— Jane Jacobs

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

— Anonymous

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

— Mick Jagger

“One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.”

— Ron Brackin

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

— Ian Rush

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

— Alexander Stoddart

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

— Flannery O'Connor

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

— Kathleen Hanna

Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it.

— Ilkin Santak