Quotes about Culture
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I'm one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I'm not entrenched in some view of what culture should be. I like the fact that it's constantly changing and that language is changing, that behaviour changes.
— Bill Bailey
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
— John Guare
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
— John Guare
'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.
— John Ortberg
We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...
— Nikki Giovanni
I mean, that the New World black woman needs a little of the Old World black woman in her, and the other way around. I don't think that they are completely fulfilled without the other.
— Nikki Giovanni
And in our culture today, tolerance no longer means to put up with something you believe to be false (after all, you don't tolerate things you agree with). Tolerance now means that you're supposed to accept every belief as true!
— Norman Geisler
What is sweeter than lettered ease?
— Cicero
Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful. Those
— Clayton M. Christensen
It's no surprise, really. Processes are often hard to see—they're a combination of both formal, defined, and documented steps and expectations and informal, habitual routines or ways of working that have evolved over time. But they matter profoundly. As MIT's Edgar Schein has explored and discussed, processes are a critical part of the unspoken culture of an organization.1 They enforce "this is what matters most to us.
— Clayton M. Christensen
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
— Virginia Woolf