Quotes about "Cultural Intelligence"

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ”

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. ”

For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives. ”

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change. ”

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess. ”

I travel probably four days a week. That's the game of international development. You have to be at your properties. No developer is successful sitting behind their desk. ”

In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming. ”

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. ”

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture. ”

It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence. ”