Changing Culture Quotes

#1. Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Charlotte Bunch

#2. Some people will say a woman is subordinate to men because its our culture. But culture is constantly changing ... culture does not make people, people makes culture.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

John Novak

#4. The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

Ronald Reagan

#5. The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.

Merlin Donald

#6. I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#7. Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

Sherry Shahan

#8. Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

Herbert Gutman

#9. If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Mary Douglas

#10. There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.

Mark Kelly

#11. Just like changing personality, culture change is possible but difficult.

Pearl Zhu

#12. Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

Miriam Makeba

#13. Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior - and changing behavior is hard.

Keith Ferrazzi

#14. It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.

Roz Chast

#15. I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop ... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

Ellen Glasgow

#16. World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

L.A. Reid

#17. Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#18. Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a chance to focus on much more individuals who are pivotal in changing the landscape of American culture.

Steve Stoute

#19. We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

LeCrae

#20. The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.

Georgie Anne Geyer

#21. Why, with all this good intention, does it still feel so muddy when we talk about culture, what it is, and how to make it better? It's because we're trying to bring personal growth and spiritual ideas into the workplace without first changing the underlying agreement that governs it. The

Jonathan Raymond

#22. Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture.

Tariq Ramadan

#23. Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

David Plotz

#24. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

David Brier

#25. 'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

Jennifer Egan

#26. I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.

Graciela Iturbide

#27. Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ravi Zacharias

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

Bill Johnson

#29. The movement of abstract art ... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

Meyer Schapiro

#30. The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

Randall Jarrell

#31. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

Ze Frank

#32. Another thing: a living culture is forever changing, without losing itself as a framework and context of change. The reconstruction of a culture is not the same as its restoration.

Jane Jacobs

#33. In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

Edgar Schein

#34. We grow primarily through our challenges,
especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize
aspects of our nature that make us different from the family
and culture in which we have been raised.

Caroline Myss

#35. For a company culture to change, the top executives must be on board with changing it. This means they must understand what the change means for them.

Janet Gregory

#36. Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

A.P.

#37. Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.

Douglas Alexander

#38. Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.

James Burnham

#39. I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

Beck

#40. But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just ... us.

Daniel Quinn

#41. I've often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.

R.C. Sproul

#42. The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

John P. Kotter

#43. It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with the way we're evolving since our culture is changing so fast.

Rick Riordan

#44. I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.

Tanya Biank

#45. A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government.

Tim O'Reilly