Culture Oriented Quotes

#1. The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.
'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.

J.P. Donleavy

#2. Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

George Takei

#3. The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.

Mark Rutte

#4. Throughout our culture we have been led to the idea that we accept death as the end of life on earth ... Time bound as we are and goal oriented to achievements in our lifetime, we find it strange to anticipate heaven.

Billy Graham

#5. The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Henri Nouwen

#6. A man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur.

Milan Kundera

#7. Neurologically, people have a need to feel oriented, to know where they are, not just in terms of a compass and not just in terms of geography, but in terms of their culture and history. To be informed about where they're coming from and to have some glimpse towards a hopeful future.

James Howard Kunstler

#8. I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#9. Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Etel Adnan

#10. Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

Benjamin Walker

#11. An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

Kip Tindell

#12. Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

Dee Dee Myers

#13. She wasn't sure she WANTED to live happily ever after.

Anne Taintor

#14. Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture, too, must be religiously oriented.

Henry R. Van Til

#15. I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?

Busta Rhymes

#16. All throughout our lives, we selectively draw on selected shavings of life events and reflect upon them through consciousness, creating an arranged catalogue of senses, faculties, and mental activities that compose our personal life story.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. The foundation of all long-term success lies in building a Resilient and Growth oriented MINDSET.

Tony Dovale

#18. We are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent

Brad Stone

#19. Culture is concerned with the world of values. All cultures are irreducibly value-oriented.

Henry R. Van Til

#20. If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

Luis Figo

#21. The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.

David Byrne

#22. Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.

John Mackey

#23. It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

Antonis Samaras

#24. I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

Jana Kramer