A Quote by Monica Ali

If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

Monica Ali

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Monica Ali
British - Novelist
Born: October 20, 1967

When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive.

Robert Crumb

When I took charge of Pakistan, I stopped and had a look from the outside before making any judgement calls. I got used to the culture because I think that is so important. For you to move a team forward as a coach, you have to understand the culture.

Mickey Arthur

Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".

H. Ned Seelye

The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?

Mark Manson

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

Willem Dafoe

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

Tamar Jacoby

I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

Aaron Rodgers

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

Marcus Buckingham

We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.

Caroline Myss

I'm so genuine about what I do and how I want to do it, and I get anxiety when I'm pressured from the outside.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all. All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate. So, we're influenced. So there can't be free choices.

Jacque Fresco

All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates a model, something for other men to feed upon and pattern themselves after. It also gives other genuine men a vital connection that sustains and extends who they are.

Stephen Mansfield

This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.

Gabriel Byrne

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

Kerry James Marshall

In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

James E. Faust

I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show you how pervasive this stuff has become in our culture. It really is an ideology that you can subscribe to now.

Chris Hardwick

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