Culture Quotes - Page 27

• Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

  Reid Hoffman

  Attention, Pay, Pay Attention

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• Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.

  Jeff Bezos

  Self, Amazon, Facts

  "I Asked Jeff Bezos The Tough Questions - No Profits, The Book Controversies, The Phone Flop - And He Showed Why Amazon Is Such A Huge Success". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2014.

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• Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Bigs, Big Questions

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• How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

  Bob Myers

  Basketball, Successful, Organization

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• Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goodbye, Body Image, Critics

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• Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  People, Yearning, Discounts

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• A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

  Brian Eno

  Humanity

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• Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.

  Zoe Helene

  Loyalty, Mother, Running

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• For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.

  David Cronenberg

  Wall, Dark, Artist

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• I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

  Andrew Weil

  Past, Substance, World

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• Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.

  Andrew Weil

  Spiritual, People, Giving

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• The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

  James Q. Wilson

  Wall, People, Achievement

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• Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

  Isaac Stern

  Music Is, Parts Of Life, Active

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• Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.

  Howard Schultz

  Sports, Rich Or Poor, Color

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• Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware of the very moment, the very instant that you are in; being aware of how you affect the human social, political, and natural ecology you are a part of and how it affects you. Consciousness is being informed and instructed through your groups peculiar culture on the effects of the varied ecologies on your immediate and distant ancestors, and to be aware of their interpretation of that experience.

  James Small

  Political, Peculiar, Facts

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• Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression.

  David Duchovny

  Hurt, People, Feelings

  "David Duchovny: Coming and Going". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. April 1, 2000.

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• Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church.

  Mike Pilavachi

  Church, Happenings

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• The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

  Ziggy Marley

  Rights, People, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Attitude, Philosophy, Views

  Jean Paul Sartre (1963). “The Problem of Method”

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• When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ideas, Important, Way

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• Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Technology, Differences

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• In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.

  David Byrne

  Song, Names, Listening

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• Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

  Jack McDevitt

  Omnipotence, Deities, Enjoy

  Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.100, Penguin

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• The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

  James Bryce

  Needs, Mediocrity, American Voters

  James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Educational, Struggle

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.186, SIU Press

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