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“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.”

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Ivan Chermayeff

Ivan Chermayeff is an influential artist in the fields of art and design. His work spans various domains including graphic design, sculpture, and architecture, known for its unique style and creativity. more

“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”

Way Mind Heart Self Culture Realizing Differences Common Creative Taken Our Lives Progress Journey Habit Strategy Deeper Common Sense Daily Life Heart And Mind Ambiguity Intercultural

Author:H. Ned Seelye

“A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.”

Values Culture Interest Groups Awareness Members Degrees Importance Patterns Assumption Behaviour Frame Of Reference

Book:Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning

Source: Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning

“Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".”

People Way Body Faces Moving Certain Choices Culture Acting Situation Events And Love Response Touched Abstraction Making Choices Work And Love

Author:H. Ned Seelye

“Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.”

Culture Poor Oysters Britons

Author:Sallust

“The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.”

Imagination Products Theory Evolution

Author:John Ambrose Fleming

“It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.”

Stories Students Evolution Significant Fossils

Author:D. V. Ager

“The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. ...but ever since Darwin's work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.”

“Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.”

Way Persons Action Attention Attitude Integrity Promise Behavior Improving Trustworthiness

Author:Kenneth Cloke

“I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.”

Middle Huge Travel Funny Travel Middle Of The Road

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

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