Top 1200 Greek Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

There's a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.

Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery.

My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong.

Here we must distinguish between society and culture. A society can be interested in a man or woman only as a political or economic entity; a culture is interested in more. Culture means literally "to cultivate" or "to care for." Cultures care for their peoples as natural, spiritual beings and not simply as workers or consumers.

The key to culture is it's a framework for making decisions. And if it's baked into your culture, people learn how to make decisions across that culture without you ever saying anything. You never have to really do anything except watch and promote and move people around.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where black women were furthest from the standard of beauty, in an American culture where trans women of color were invisible.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

At Under Armour, we've created a very strong culture, a culture that first and foremost is built on people.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

The Greek people are entrepreneurial.

There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals and visions. .. Yet no earthly dreamer can match the greatest of them all, the Dreamer who died on the cross to make His dream a reality. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word." The literal meaning of logos, the original Greek term translated as "Word," is idea, thought or blueprint. It is an ancient Greek theatrical term describing the work of a playwright as he conceives, or dreams up, the plot of a play. So we could say, "In the beginning was the dream".

Many books condemn 'secular' culture, just as many books advocate (consciously or unconsciously) accommodating ourselves to culture. Brett has written something much different: a biblically informed and culturally savvy approach to consuming culture in a God-honoring, community-building, and mission-advancing way.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.

The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater.

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.

Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.