Culture Quotes · Page 157

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

— John Novak

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

— Karl Kraus

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

— Simon Sinek

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind…

— Jacob Bronowski

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

— Yo-Yo Ma

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

— Meghan McCain

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture.

— Takashi Murakami

Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

— Fat Joe

How do we in the African American community build a culture in which we are saying to our kids, "Here's what it…

— Barack Obama

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

— Mark Pagel

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it…

— Mem Fox

It was always presumptuous to expect Russia, an ancient nation-state and proud empire of distinct culture with a tradition of autocracy, to…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across…

— Rod Parsley

Lithuania is going to stay my home forever but I find myself really comfortable here in Toronto. I like living here. I…

— Jonas Valanciunas

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of…

— Pauline Kael

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they…

— Mary Beard

I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much…

— Kele Okereke

Nobody had counseled women to expect the changes in bleeding patterns which are typically associated with IUD use, and they received no…

— Ruth Simmons

It seems that the Internet is setting the standard for almost everything. I can't imagine having something like punk rock happen where…

— Memory Tapes

There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the…

— Edmund Clowney

If Christians continue to rely on emotion and ignore evidence, they will continue to lose their children to secularism. As Ravi Zacharias…

— Frank Turek

Intuit's mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and…

— Brad D. Smith

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and…

— Rush Limbaugh

The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

There's a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.

— Jim Cornette

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

— John Lothrop Motley

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

— Hugh Hefner

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

— Leon Krier

The old generations have thrown themselves into the abyss between the generations... to be resurrected among the young generations!

— Ilkin Santak

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

— John Denver

Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand.

— Ryan Holiday

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

— Anonymous

If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.

— Thundercat

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

— Maureen Corrigan

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

— Gregory Chaitin

Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

— Michael Wilbon

Unfortunately, it is part of Italian football and our culture to come to the stadium and whistle players for the choices they…

— Leonardo Bonucci

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.

— Aldis Hodge