Ethnocentric Approach Quotes & Sayings

Life is for happiness not for success. — Debasish Mridha

Once a King, always a King. But once a Knight is enough! — Ian Fleming

You may be scorned in the public because of your race it is a function that there is an assignment for you there — Sunday Adelaja

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part. — Garry Marshall

I'm scared to death to fly commercial ... I have not flown commercial since 9/11. — Brett Hull

Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better. — Jim Rohn

He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of the page is no guarantee. Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation. He hated to argue about the techniques of verse. The poem is a dirty, bloody, burning thing that has to be grabbed first with bare hands. Once the fire celebrated Light, the dirt Humility, the blood Sacrifice. Now the poets are professional fire-eaters, freelancing at any carnival. The fire goes down easily and honours no one in particular. — Leonard Cohen

Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture and religion is best. The idea that it is wrong to do so is deeply rooted in Western traditions of self-criticism and individualism. To charge others with the "sin" of ethnocentrism is really a way of saying, "Our culture's approach to other cultures is superior to yours. — Timothy J. Keller

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people. — Craig Bruce

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence ... faith. — Serj Tankian

Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers. — Jim Craig

She said, a child born at midwinter comes into the world on the shortest day of the year. From that point on, the days stretch out. And so a child born at midwinter walks always toward the light, all his life. — Juliet Marillier

People look, they don't see. — Laura Ruby

When I'm working 16-hour days and I can't work out, I get angry very easily. It's because I'm missing all those good endorphins. For me, exercise equals happiness. — Heather Morris

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise. — George Arthur French