Top 1200 Different Cultures Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

It's so different in the different states, it is sometimes like being in a different country.

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.

You're able to learn different things from different coaches and different players.

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in the audience during the official screening in Cannes, I didn't feel that it was my film.

I felt that 'Deep Space' was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where you really are doing a very different show. It's a different format. It's a different feeling.

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different words. When I have to just be Nathan, that's when I feel vulnerable.

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

Voice work is really fun and challenging. I like learning different skills and different styles, and this is definitely different from doing a play or a filmed TV show.

Everyone experiences different parts of themselves at different times, these different parts of themselves that come out in different settings.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.

We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions - they are not just repetitions of each other.

You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.

Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days.

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

In certain cultures, they'll eat an eyeball. I'm never gonna be that guy.

I know what it takes to win, and I've helped lead teams to winning cultures.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

I am linked with Jose because we worked together, but I don't go out of my way to talk about it. We are 'different people, have 'different 'personalities and different views on the game.

My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

When we represent all cultures with sensitivity and truth, we foster a society that supports all people.

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to heaven then?' And the answer was always, 'Well, everyone gets a chance - meaning at the word of God as it was described to me then. And that didn't sit well with me then. But in times of trouble or discord, it's a great comfort. And it wasn't till I left home that I really came to the conclusion that it didn't make sense to me for many other reasons.

I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.

The clashes of people and the clashes of cultures have assisted me in learning the openness you have to be a part of in New York. You're always meeting people who are different than you. You always have to find a way to exist in it and also find a way to be yourself. In Stockholm, I thought I was artsy, then I came to New York and was like, "there's a bunch of artsy people everywhere!" It really forced me to start looking myself and ask. "what does it mean to be me?"

Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits.

When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Kyle Walker thinks he's quicker than me. In games, it's different: you run different distances, players are in different positions, so I don't know. But one day, we will see!

I need different people to tap into different energies for different things.

When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull.

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.

In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same.