“Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it s presence.”
“La barbarie n est le contraire de la culture que dans le cadre de la hierarchie de pensee que celle-ci nous propose. ”
“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they re living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.”
“When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you ve given enough, your place is near the centre.”
“Elvis wasn’t always the over-weight and over-tasseled being you might have seen when he was way past his prime. Las Vegas always had a thing for the seedy and the needy.”
“Cultural understanding therefore begins with each of us committing to a process of increasing self-awareness, curious observation, ongoing reflection, and dialogue with others.”
“This is India, my friend!”
“..el instinto poético es impotente por si solo (...) El estudio paciente (...) y la meditación profunda (...) son quienes desenvuelven los gérmenes del ingenio y llevan por un camino mas largo, es cierto, pero mas seguro, a las eminencias en que la mente encuentra sin esfuerzo la fórmula genuina y la imagen sensible de su pensamiento.”
“I’ve come to think of culture this way: culture is to a group what personality is to an individual. It’s a collective character that describes a set of beliefs and behaviors that identify the group.”
“A fatal mistake in the history of the world which at the current moment still continues to be made is the confusion of the nation with its ethnicity. A nation can be made of many enthicities; tribes unite and divide all the time, and they go from one nation to another; or they just live on the territories of two or other nations, which further helps with the process of fusion of other different countries altogether. The examples are almost everywhere you look. But when a certain type of ethnicity gets confused that it is the nation, it almost certainly leads to discrimination, conflicts, racism and over all pretty bad and nasty things. The same thing happens when an ethnicity which lives in the territory of a certain nation starts to capsulate itself (to deny its belongings to any type of nation), or to seek a national identity elsewhere—then we have separatism.”
“Don’t get stuck in the past. Celebrate the company’s history (heritage), but focus primarily on the present and future (culture).”
“INDIA IS ORIGIN OF WORLD S OLDEST, INFLUENTIAL,PROGRESSIVE HUMAN CIVILIZATION IN TERMS OF SANSKRIT-MOTHER OF ALL LANGUAGES, SPIRITUAL, CULTURE,SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY,HEALING, ECONOMICS,MELODIES,KNOWLEDGE,WISDOM ENCOMPASSING ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE, IMPORTANTLY DHARMA WHICH HAS SHAPED THE DESTINY OF MANKIND.”
“Create your inner circle. Identify four to five irreplaceable, intentional mentors in your life and formally develop those relationships; choose people who already have a vested interest in your success.”
“If securing some mentors and being one yourself are not already on your leadership list of things to do, let’s get at it. It’s too important for your career to ignore.”
“Don’t wait to be reminded to focus on your own development.”
“Leaders have the power to light up or extinguish the cultural flame of a company.”
“Be the accelerant. You have the power to light up the cultural flame of the company. It’s not going to happen because of programs, processes, tools, branding or the product itself; focus on the culture and light it up!”