Culture Quotes · Page 161

“Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

— Giles Foden

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

— Jean Shepherd

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.

— Jake Peavy

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

— Amandla Stenberg

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

— Andrew Vachss

We will not bow down to the winds of PC culture whichever way they may blow.

— Dave Portnoy

Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there…

— Michael Haneke

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward…

— Matthew Arnold

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is…

— Carlos Ghosn

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can…

— Donald Glover

Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of…

— Edward T. Hall

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking…

— Shelley Berman

Confidence is not just in people's heads; it comes from the culture of the organization. It's easier to expect success when working…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

One of the issues we face here in San Francisco and Silicon Valley is a sense that the people all around us…

— Caterina Fake

If we want to talk about the coarsening of the culture, I hope you devote a whole two hours for it and…

— Kellyanne Conway

Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the…

— Peter Buffett

Cultures in general are led by people who make decisions that are more geared toward what they want to see than what…

— RaMell Ross

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role,…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is…

— Alexander Lowen

The NFL culture, the sports culture, has decided that they are more valuable than women. I've heard people laugh about keeping their…

— Terry Crews

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

— Tiffany Hwang

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of…

— Hozier

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

— John P. Kotter

“The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.”

— Edward Short

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

— Norman Foster

“Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.”

— Margaret Landon

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

— Wendell Berry

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion, she changed culture, and she changed how people dress.

— Douglas Kirkland

The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship

— Linda Tucker

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

— Kate Millett

There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many gay Republicans as there are gay Democrats.

— Kirby Dick

Culture is nourished by human motivation - a limitless resource that can sometimes be underestimated.

— Lynne Doughtie

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A…

— Joe Flaherty

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

— Anthony Lewis

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

— Tony Hsieh