All Quotes By Tag: Culture

“Nearly every inspirational story out there is about a person who breaks away from his or her background or community – where the best is clearly defined and is not them – and goes off and becomes the best somewhere else. – Of Effortless Effort”

“Time travel is real, and does not require any speculative physics. It just requires a culture with clearly defined market segments.”

“If a person labors diligently and has vital qualities, such a person will be very wealthy and successful”

“As humans, the development of our personality and success in life is not influenced only by our innate inherited traits”

“The adherent who believes in the hard working ethics of the black man experiences continuous success and development”

“Plowing like a Negro” is actually the way to success”

“Our success and how well we develop in life is greatly influenced by our perceptions, responses and decisions during challenging times”

“Our future success is directly proportional to our ability to understand, adopt and integrate new technology into our work.”

“Earlier adopters will be ultimate winners.”

“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns…We are now…only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for developments in our culture outside technology, particularly in the social, political and economic fields. It is safe to predict that…such social inventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”

“We’re part of a culture where everything is measured by money, fame and sex. It’s a religion.”

“The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction.”

“There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It’s a much deeper crisis.”

“A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”

“Fundamentalism’s strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.”