“If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.” IfsYearsMayLongArtCountryAbleCultureImaginationChristianityOne ThingCapture Author:Rowan Williams
“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.” WorldChildrenWarHateCultureViolenceOne ThingTaughtGrewMetsGrew UpIgnorantFormerTalibanOutside World Author:Greg Mortenson
“I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentMatterSchoolPainRememberCultureHurtAcceptingOne ThingAcceptanceNormalHatredUnusualHandful Author:Jessie J
“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
“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.” YearsLongHas BeensWarHappensCultureRealizingCommunityResultsImagineGenerationsOne ThingEconomicPolicyVictoryEternalVictimIncludingDefeatDisasterRuinsRegionsAlasSerbia Author:Susan Sontag
“The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America.” ThinkingMindI CanHelpingAmericaCultureOne ThingExerciseSalvationProfessionNutritionCrusades Author:Jack LaLanne
“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
“The one thing I will say is management is management. Culture is culture. You have to have a formula for those things. You have to believe in what you do and how you do it, but then you go to different environments and you have to be willing to adapt. You have to be willing to tweak things based on where you are.” BelieveDifferentCultureEnvironmentOne ThingWillingManagementWhere You AreFormulasTweakDifferent Environments Author:Pete Lembo
“If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general march of industrial culture as something undesirable, the one thing I must be beware of doing and which my colleagues on that side don't beware of doing, we must beware of saying we've got to stop changing the environment. There is no 'the' environment which we can change, the world is changing all the time.” IfsWorldWayCultureSidesEnvironmentOne ThingChanging The WorldMarchColleaguesUndesirableWarming Up Author:Richard Lewontin
“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.” MenArtArtistCultureEasyDifferencesCommonMoralOne ThingTalentSeriousGeniusFolksAffectionObviousCommunicateSpitePatrioticGreat ArtBe A ManSuspiciousPopular CultureDickensChaplinFolk ArtRemingtonDeep Affection Author:Gilbert Seldes
“The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing.” IfsWholeCultureGoalRiskOne ThingEvolutionDiversityLowsIncreaseSpeciesGreat RiskPerishingMonoculture Author:George M. Church
“One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy. But when we do come across someone who is struggling. We have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, "I'm a veteran. And by the way, I need little help." This is something we need to do in this country around mental health as a whole - destigmatizing mental health.” PeopleWayWantNeedsFeelsLittlesCountryWholeHelpingRememberCultureStruggleOne ThingAcceptanceArmsHealthyMembersComfortableMajorityMental HealthVeteranWant UOpen ArmsLittle Help Author:Michelle Obama
“I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.” ThinkingStatesCultureLanguageUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentOne ThingEntrepreneurImmigrantsNew LifeNew CulturesNew Environment Author:Anousheh Ansari
“The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they're very thankful. That's one thing I really appreciate about the yoga culture, that the people are very thankful. They come up to you as much as any fan would, but they express sincere gratitude and I appreciate that.” PeopleCultureOne ThingFansStageGratitudeYogaAppreciateCome UpSincereFestivalsUp To YouVery ThankfulSincere Gratitude Author:Brett Dennen
“I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.” GivingWritingFirstsCultureCareersImpossibleOne ThingTeachingDivinePoetObsessionPoetry IsLectures Author:Maxine Kumin
“One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.” WorldCultureOne ThingInfluenceAmerican CultureUnderestimated Author:Yael Stone
“One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.” NeedsCertainCultureOne ThingCarefulDeceptionIntimidationAccusationCover UpsAllegations Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'” PeopleNeedsCultureTermWalksCompanyOne ThingHallsFrontiersMicrosoftUsability Author:Bill Gates
“I didn't really know anything about Romany culture going into this [Glue series]. The one thing that I liked the most about it is that it's so family based. They don't have mothers and fathers in the same way we do. They're really in a community, so parenting is shared between the community.” KnowsWayMotherCultureFatherCommunityOne ThingSeriesGlueMother And Father Author:Yasmin Paige
“It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.” TryingIdeasCultureSimpleRaceOne ThingTearsFantasticSimple Ideas Author:Desmond Tutu
“It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensIdeasDifferentWould BeAbleCultureSpeakLanguageKnownNiceOne ThingCommunicateNo IdeaJust OnePrivilegedDifferent Cultures Author:Cary Fukunaga
“I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.” ThinkingWantDifferentPlayWholeTogetherCultureAudienceOne ThingMusicianUniversalIndiaWesternIndianMelodyOrchestraInfrastructureClassical MusicFillersPlaying Together Author:A. R. Rahman
“I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.” CountryShowsCultureOne ThingRocksJazzRhythmRock N RollAmerican CultureAmerican MusicRhythm And Blues Author:Etta James
“Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice.” PeopleWorldSpiritualSpiritSongCultureCoursesFatherGrowthVoiceOne ThingGroupsFieldsColorSingingJazzSlaveVariousAround The WorldStimulusGospel MusicContinuous Growth Author:Ramsey Lewis
“One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.” PeopleCultureSocialOne ThingMediaAmbitionClaimsSocial MediaEnthusiasmConferencesImperativesUtopianAcquiescenceChipotle Author:Astra Taylor
“The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.” WellsImportantCultureFunRecordsOne ThingStatementsForsakeHad Fun Author:Warryn Campbell