Best Cultures Thoughts
640 Cultures quotes by 537 unique authors
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If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between…
— Story Musgrave
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The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society’s image is…
— Fred Polak
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I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for…
— Martin Puryear
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I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the…
— Billy Boyd
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All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against…
— Neal Ascherson
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The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.
— Tony Robbins
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Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
— Jock Sturges
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Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an…
— Sam Hamill
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On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity…
— Carlos Barrios
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Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of your competition. That doesn’t mean being salesperson oriented, just sales oriented: winning deals, smelling the…
— Josh James
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of…
— Stanley Schmidt
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One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to…
— Edward T. Hall
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I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the…
— Carrie P Snow
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Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.
— Dillon Burroughs
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The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory…
— George Steiner
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The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices from…
— Wayne Teasdale
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The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to…
— Fons Trompenaars
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What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to…
— Taiye Selasi
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In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and…
— Michael Meade
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Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures,
— Lauren Hutton
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I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is…
— Unknown Author
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The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far…
— Charles A. Murray
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