Quotes About Cultural Understanding

#1. It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

Viola Davis

#2. Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

Jose Ferreira

#3. We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

Wynton Marsalis

#4. The trick, and it's a tough one, is a common cultural understanding of what kind of failure is okay and what kind leads to disaster. But

Tom Peters

#5. And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.

Herb Ritts

#6. I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

William Kirby

#7. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

Wendell Berry

#8. Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Yo-Yo Ma

#9. Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.

Hu Jintao

#10. Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

Alan Dean Foster

#11. Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

David Blunkett

#12. Upon the earth appear'd, weeping, they bore Brave Hector out; and on the fun'ral pile Laying the glorious dead, applied the torch.

Homer

#13. Cheese, where you takes liquid from a cow lady's business parts, mix it with a bit o' juices from a baby cow's fourth stomach and then let it grow all fuzzy-moldy for a few years, eh?

Jeffery Russell

#14. 'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

Okky Madasari

#15. I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Jim Jarmusch

#16. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet

Gloria Steinem

#17. Vaccination was, and is, thoroughly infused with our politics, our social values, and our cultural norms. By acknowledging and understanding the divergent reasons why we've vaccinated in the past, however, we just may ensure the continued success of vaccination in the future.

Elena Conis

#18. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Marshall McLuhan

#19. Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.

Bassam Tibi

#20. My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

Sophia Amoruso

#21. Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135

Sonia Sotomayor

#22. Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#23. These are pious, clean-living men, worshipping at the temple of their own bodies."
"Hmm. Sounds distinctly erotic.

Richard K. Morgan

#24. In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.

Kofi Annan

#25. I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Sonia Sotomayor

#26. If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Deborah J. Levine

#27. Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.

Will Tuttle

#28. I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts

Margaret Thatcher

#29. Understanding different national, cultural, and religious traditions is no longer a luxury; it is now a necessity and must become a priority. The

Karen Armstrong

#30. To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.

Reza Negarestani

#31. I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

Charles Colson

#32. The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

Stephen Jay Gould

#33. Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.

Erin Meyer

#34. There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick