“Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.” WorldCultureJesusWealthQualityModernThis WorldHonorSkillsAchievementRewardsArtisticWinnerLoserImpressAthleticModern Culture Author:Philip Yancey
“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.” CultureFunAmountAchievementSmartExcellenceEmployeeMediocrityRetail Author:Kip Tindell
“Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.” PeopleHumanityCultureQuietAchievementResponsibleIntrovertReservedBiasedGreatest Achievement Author:Susan Cain
“Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.” IdeasSchoolCultureCompanyCreativityFashionSolitudeAchievementGregariousGroupthink Author:Susan Cain
“Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.” ValuesCultureCompanyAchievementPerformancesOvercomingImpactProfoundLeavingObstaclesExpecting Author:Carlos Ghosn
“We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.” NeedsCultureProcessSuccessfulGreaterAchievementEntrepreneurEnvyTreatedEnterpriseCommerceSuspicionReadinessMistrustDisdainSuccessful Entrepreneurs Author:Norman Tebbit
“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.” ShouldCultureSocialAbilityClassEqualAchievementExpectationsAspirationAffectedMotivatedProspectsSocial Class Book:A Theory of Justice Source: A Theory of Justice
“We reject certain food because it is rotten. Certain food we can see is fresh. But there is this creative space between fresh food and rotten food where most of human culture's most prized delicacies and culinary achievements exist.” HumansCertainCultureSpaceCreativeAchievementRejectsCulinaryRottenDelicacySpace BetweenFresh FoodCreative Space Author:Sandor Katz
“Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.” FeelsHumansLooksStoriesTodayFilmCultureCenturyEventsAchievementHollywoodSlaveryEverydayPunishmentBurningWitchAncestorAcceptableGrandchildrenShatteredAmazementCapital PunishmentInquisitionGreat Grandchildren Author:Werner Herzog
“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.” TodayReligionHumanityCultureRaceAchievementEnlightenmentReasonableDividesThinkerJustifiedIlliterateChasmsEnlightenment Thinkers Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“Fathers are still considered the most important "doers" in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as thefamily authorities on careers, and so fathers' encouragement and counsel is important to them. When fathers don't take their daughters' achievements and plans seriously, girls sometimes have trouble taking themselves seriously.” StillsImportantSometimesCultureGirlFatherCareersPlansTroubleAuthorityAchievementDaughterEncouragementDoersThat Girl Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence