Top 1200 Different Cultures Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

Every action project you take, whether it be a movie or TV series, is always different and a lot of people don't really know how big a difference it is. It's a different style of fighting, a different tempo and all of that.

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

Every position is a bit different, but for a young player it's important to be able to play different positions, to see the game in a different view, to learn of every position. Because you need different skills, and it's perfect for a young player to develop.

Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!

America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity.

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

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

I try to keep each different book different from the last. So 'Sag Harbor' is very different from 'Apex Hides the Hurt;' 'The Intuitionist,' which is kind of a detective novel, is very different from 'John Henry Days.' I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

Acting is interesting because you get to be involved in different stories and get to work with different people. Also, acting allows one to be a part of different stories, travel to different parts of the country and all the experiences put together make life interesting.

There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

Reversal is something that has been demonstrated in a number of different animals in a number of different ways. I think that's going to translate into larger animals and humans. We won't know until we try. But we are trying 65 different genes in different combinations to see if we can reproduce the aging reversal that we've seen in small animals.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.

What's special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities that should be replaced by Christianity, the only civilized religion. The West has also long assumed that it should convert tribal cultures to literacy, which is to say an entirely different way of looking at the world, of living in the world. Most Africans who have achieved a comfortable Western lifestyle are Christian. Why? Because it comes with the package: Christian-ity, literacy, and a material lifestyle all come together.

We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their different political systems and different relationships between the central banks and the fiscal authorities.

I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.

I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording and performing. They're all completely different and draw on different types of skills. With recording, there are so many different phases of production, and you have to be very careful because you can polish it until it doesn't shine.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All different nations, all different people. Different individuals live in the West. There's no such thing as "West" just as there's no such things as "East." What is "East?" Turkey, Iran, China, India, Japan. They are all different. They are all unique.

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a director as I would be if I were an actor. I'm wanting to provide a really good performance.

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

I went to stage school, I went to Rada, I've been in this London bubble for as long as I can remember, which is involved with being as inclusive and accepting of any people from different countries, different walks of life, different religion - that's who I am.

I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

One of the things I love about my job is that it offers me an opportunity to step into different people and different spaces and different kinds of work in every new thing that I do. I'm just looking forward to the surprises I'm going to have.

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in themselves, but artistically, what you're trying to achieve with a film is so very different to what you're trying to achieve with a book, and the way when you write a script is so very different on paper to how it seems on a screen.

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!