“I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.” ThinkingLittlesMatterCultureReadingEnvironmentListening Author:David Sylvian
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” InspirationalSelfInspirationCultureAbilityEducationKnowledgeLearningTeacherListeningDiversityLosingAngerPatienceSocial JusticeIntelligenceEducationalSelf ConfidenceThought ProvokingTemperEducation SystemSelf EducationBest TeacherSchooledEducational SystemHomeschoolingGreat EducationCollege EducationEducation And TeachersSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalTeacher StudentChildren LearningTeacher And StudentInspirational EducationKnowledge EducationBeing A TeacherEducation And KnowledgeChildren EducationStudents And EducationChildren And EducationInspirational EducationalEducation And LiteracyValue Of EducationKnowledge LearningPurpose Of EducationImportance Of EducationTeachers Learning From StudentsWhat Is EducationBad TemperLiteracy And ChildrenAcademic EducationUniversity EducationBoard Of EducationGreat KnowledgeMotivational EducationIntelligence And EducationEducational ChangeTeachers From KidsEffective TeachingEducational Reform Author:Robert Frost
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.” WellsLittlesWholeProblemFormCultureStuffBitsCan DoTelevisionListeningLittle BitVariousAustraliaAccentsNo ProblemAmerican CultureTrickyWhole Family Author:Guy Pearce
“A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.” StillsRealCultureReadingCommonExpressionListeningHealthyRadioNewspapersEducatedArtisticVillagePrimitiveLiteracy Book:The Sane Society Source: The Sane Society
“the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.” MeanPastCultureVoiceListeningIndianGloriousAncestor Author:Allen Sapp
“Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds... That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.” IfsSeemsSchoolCultureEnjoyOne ThingListeningFishesDownfallSchools Of Fish Author:DJ Quik
“I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.” PeopleMayHas BeensScienceCultureFunLossStudyCollegeListeningPeriodsIntellectualLonelyWesternMalesRadioEntertainmentProductivitySatisfiedBotherEngagingConvincingCambridgeStaircases Author:James D. Watson
“For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.” HumansHas BeensStoriesCultureGirlHuman BeingsHistoryOur LivesListeningFemaleImportanceTreatedStorytellingGossipIgnoredDiscouragedSeriousnessMarginalized Author:Gloria Steinem
“A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.” FactsAmericaSongCultureReadingVisionListeningSurprisingBobMultipleAngleShiftingThrillingDylanAmerican CultureSean Author:Martin Scorsese
“In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.” DiesCultureSpaceActingAirHavensFieldsJudgingListeningTasksEternityAbsolutesInfiniteForgivingDuesBreathePlanningFiniteContingencyOpen Spaces Author:Eugen Drewermann
“I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.” NeedsBigsCultureStuffSpaceCitiesSilenceMiddleListeningGrewGrew UpHorseContemporaryGrassMexicoRidingBugsBig CitiesOpen SpacesNew MexicoBombardedMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Tom Ford
“The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.” FirstsEnoughCultureStrongSoundSeeingStyleListeningFirst TimeCrossesConnectionsIndependentMusicalGreat MenMelodyVery StrongVocalHungariansStrong ConnectionIrish Music Author:Tom Waits
“How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train" and "American Bandstand", got our fashion and dance tips, and then we emulated it and bought those records that we heard. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds, and there's no uniformity. That bothers me.” PeopleSoulSeemsSchoolUsedCultureBlackLosesRecordsHeardFashionListeningTrainFishesBotherBlack PeopleSaturdayUniformitySoul TrainSchools Of Fish Author:DJ Quik
“Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.” IfsThinkingMindMayPersonsPlayUseArtistCultureUniverseSoundMillionsListeningPureWasteMusic IsAddictionPatternsValuablePracticalsInstanceLuxuryMaking MoneyParadoxApplicationSwingsGalaxyListening To MusicPlaying MusicTime And MoneyValuable Time Author:Alan Watts
“In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.” SongCultureNamesTelevisionTaughtListeningStandingPopsTitlesReliefBreastsPlatesPop SongFuture Love Author:David Byrne
“Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that's how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.” PeopleWayShouldMeanDoeDifferentChristianCultureJesusDifferencesListeningArgumentChristian LifeOne WayInterpretationDiscipleDifferent CulturesDifferent Interpretations Author:Alan Green
“You know what the biggest fear among women who age is becoming bag women. They're 55, 60, with no relationship and no job, and they worry about it. Look, the dirty little secret is the women listening to me know that this is a very factual assessment of our culture today, and it is very unfair, and it hurts, and it bothers them greatly.” AgeTodayCultureHurtSecretWorryListeningBotherDirtyUnfairIt HurtsFactual Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Some cultures don't have a separate word for music and dance. To my knowledge, this notion of listening to music without dancing is a Western creation. I can't think of any artist that I love that doesn't inspire movement in some form or another. I guess Tangerine Dream or early Vangelis or something like that, you're not really going to dance. But on the whole, I feel like dancing and music are so naturally intertwined. I feel like subconsciously, that's the goal whenever I'm working on music. It's kind of the defining thing: Does it got some funk to it, basically?” ThinkingKindDreamArtistCultureGoalCreationInspireListeningDancingWesternListening To MusicFunk Author:RJD2
“The whole appeal of dance music is being liberated because music is liberating and it's not about club culture or the social aspect of playing the mating game or whatever you're doing at a club. It's more about the euphoric aspect of listening to music.” CultureListeningMusic IsLiberatingListening To MusicEuphoric Author:Memory Tapes
“I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.” PeopleThinkingKindKidsCultureInspireListeningAssumingRapStraightforwardPop Music Author:Bethany Cosentino
“I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in this ancient wisdom that in Arabic culture is often quoted. Those proverbs are such a huge part of the language and parts of people's every day. This is the wisdom that we use in our everyday life but we're not always listening to.” CultureLanguageListeningEverydayAncientEveryday Life Author:Cherien Dabis
“In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives. People aren't listening to poetry as if they're taking their vitamins. Instead, it's a popular vessel you can fill with anything. You could fill it with sass. You could fill it with rage. You could fill it with political statements.” PeopleWorldDifferentRealPoliticalCultureListeningProgramWesternRageReputationPoetry IsAfghanistanVesselHousewife Author:Eliza Griswold
“I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much as the next person. So I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. That low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.” ThinkingArtRealCultureListeningCurrencyPop Culture Author:Kele Okereke
“Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We had grown up listening to reggae music in our communities. People were enjoying what we were doing with out music - we didn't have to work to sell it to them.” PeopleCultureEnjoyCommunityNaturalListeningSickAmerican CultureReggae Author:Jazzie B
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ChildrenWisdomKidsCultureParentEducationFamilyTeachingListeningDiversityModelsSocial JusticeParentingVery GoodEducationalMy ChildrenYour ChildrenRole ModelsListenersImitationDeep ThoughtEldersJust ListenBeing A ParentHaving ChildrenImitatingChildren And ParentsHaving KidsGood ParentGood ListenerHappy ChildrenChildren EducationImitatorParents And TeachersBeing A KidBeing A Role ModelChild PsychologyGood ParentingSetting An ExampleGood Role ModelsAmazing ParentsHappy KidBeing A Good ParentInspirational ChildrenSetting A Good ExamplePerfect ChildGood Upbringing Author:James A. Baldwin
“Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.” PeopleLittlesI CanImportantFactsCultureUniverseRecordsStreetsListeningDevelopmentPostsLampsIpodsUnitingMusic Culture Author:John Lydon
“Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.” WorldWayCultureFatherBitsWatchesGrowing UpGrowingTaughtListeningHeavyBritishMetalsSuburbsWaynePassed AwayTorontoHeavy MetalAustinBritish Culture Author:Mike Myers
“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.” PeopleKnowsKidsSchoolCultureLiteratureBrainTalkingListeningMessagesHigh SchoolBuiltCourtReunionAttendingPromHigh School ReunionSchool Reunion Author:Anna Quindlen
“In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.” PeopleWorldWantedCultureClassSawsMiddleStudentsCollegeListeningThirdsWesternMiddle ClassContrastProsperousInfluentialThird WorldWestern CultureCollege StudentsAmerican MovieMalaysia Book:Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America Source: Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” PeopleHeartKidsPainSongCultureLossMusicWorryViolenceSadnessBrokenListeningGunMiseryScaredViolentVideoTeenagerRejectionFidelityKids Playing Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity
“Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.” PeopleIdeasCultureViewsListeningSpeechTrainingConcernedFlowOppositesTediousInterruptions Author:S. I. Hayakawa