Best personality & culture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.”

“The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.”

Feelings Culture Women Study Records Position Personality Bases Fundamentals Drawing Parallels Uncovering

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.”

Dream America Certain Culture Interest Democracy Personality Aspiration Clash Mobility

Author:David Brooks

“Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.”

Character Culture Growing Personality Becoming Perfection

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.”

“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.”

People Way Giving Able Purpose Order Culture Understanding Growth Attitude Trouble Design Personality Ego Giving Up Conscious Planning Urges Rooted Utilitarian Inner Growth

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.”

Art Culture Change Personality Surprise Unexpected Breakthrough Tackling

Author:Lynda Obst

“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.”

Should Culture Interest My Own Personality Circumstances Taste Reflection Tolerance Judgement Surround Bullshit Good Taste

Book:Songbook

Source: Songbook

“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.”

Ifs Want Together Culture Differences Freedom Class Talent Building Personality Diversity Economics Distance Committed Sexuality Liberation Aspiration Working Together

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.”

“Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.”

Wells Two Different Seems Kids Culture Social Natural Son Personality Skills Athletic Social Skills

Author:Alex Kendrick

“Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.”

Way Different Matter Able Culture Sports Black White Poor Deals Common Rich Color Personality Thread Different Cultures Black Or White Rich Or Poor Equalizer Common Threads

Author:Howard Schultz

“The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.”

People Whole Culture Lost Loses Personality Taste Instruments Decline Personal Taste National Culture

Author:Robert Graves

“I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say.”

Ifs Want Feels Kind Would Be Culture Serious Personality Clothes Doctors Clean Patient Pops Pop Culture Cocky

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a culture of words and religion, and you won't see manycsa charismatic people on Al Jazeera, except for the ones who are now learned presenters. You see Arab leaders getting on TV - which was very hard for me working out how to do the part, since Arab leaders are looking somnambulant, staring into their microphone, almost as if someone's got a hand up their back.”

“The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to try to imagine a new kind of structure in architecture. In general, architects follow fashions. They're neoclassical, postmodern.”

Trying Kind Important Different Culture Creative Environment Imagine Fashion Personality Architecture Architect Different Cultures Postmodern

Author:Shigeru Ban

“I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur, Marvin Gaye and Bill Cosby. But even in the books that take up major figures, I hope to provoke conversation, insight and understanding about these personalities by providing new, fresh and vital information and analysis about them.”

Book Culture Understanding Personality Insight Provoking Luther Marvin

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.”

Culture Language Common Cutting Share Fans Football Serious Type Personality Universal Legion Universal Language Football Fan Personality Types

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S

“It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.”

Giving Humans Culture Animal Talent Personality Pops Pop Culture Human Personality

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.”

Thinking Feels Culture Christ Deals Personality Development Elements Catholic South Novelists Prophet Department Sociology Embarrassment Shouting Kinship Backwoods

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.”

Character Culture Tvs Personality Sensitive Irrelevant Postmodern Vacuous

Author:David F. Wells

“If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.”

Ifs Thinking Way May Art Character Light Form Culture Speak Color Personality Speech Stones West Climate Western Minors Geography Pyramids Western Culture Light And Color

Book:The American West as Living Space

Source: The American West as Living Space

“The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

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