3,162 Quotes About Culture

Our culture has an idea of competition in the pursuit of excellence that can make anyone not striving for the top feel like a worthless, non-productive bystander. This applies not only to one's career but even to one's leisure.

In search of good ideas, I started to see that marketing underlies everything in modern human culture in the same way that evolution underlies everything in human nature.

When you're talking about over 26,000 items - and that's just Disney - it's a little hard to say where "want" ends and "coercion" begins.

Relax,' said Gold. 'I know when to tip the butler, and which sleeve to blow my nose on.

A distinction was drawn between the scientific use of language - where a word is chosen for the meaning it has - and the magical use of language for the meaning a word conveys or transports

Religious culture is the one that defines a game and sets the rules; Scientific culture is the one that tests the rules; Arts culture is the one that breaks the rules; and Magical culture is the one that plays by the rules, but knows it is "just a game".

Religion and Science are paths of denial, in the sense that a scientific statement should be one capable of being disproved, while a religious statement should be capable of being disbelieved.

Culture is the always-on operating system, guiding behavior even when there is no one to watch, reward, or punish that behavior

Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.