Cultures Quotes

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.

It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.