“I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.” BigsCultureReadingNovelCrimeYouthIndustryReaderBecomingLateInnocentTransitionFascinatedKeithReversalYouth Culture Author:Jo Nesbo
“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.” MindSpiritCultureStudyConditionsBecomingCircumstancesPerfectionInwardBecoming Something Author:Matthew Arnold
“Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.” CharacterCultureGrowingPersonalityBecomingPerfection Author:Matthew Arnold
“Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.” PeopleThinkingWantStillsCultureBecomingSellingCopiesOutdatedMp3 Author:Diplo
“Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!” YearsCultureUnderstandingStudyFireModernBecomingWalkingDancingLifestylePursueBreathingDragonsModern Culture Author:Theophilus London
“Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.” PeopleIfsWayWantSeemsYoungCultureGrowing UpGrowingOne ThingBecomingEatingYogaTherapyObsessedWrong WayEating Right Author:Jason Reitman
“I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.” LittlesCountryTurnsCultureChurchTakenFiveMinutesTelevisionBecomingGoodnessEntertainmentVideoThese DaysSubstanceThirtyOther CountriesShallowSermonsFive MinutesAmerican CultureTurn-onEthosClipDisheartenedVideo Clips Author:Philip Yancey
“Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.” DoeCultureBrainInformationBecomingLayersMultipleKinderCompactHemisphereWiring Author:Leonard Shlain
“I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.” CultureBecomingConvincedNostalgiaTrafficUnhealthy Author:William Gibson