Naveen Patnaik Quotes

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Learn to understand the culture of those that you wish to influence.

National culture can act as a bridge, instead of an obstacle, to mutual spiritual and intellectual understanding.

I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

You couldn't have human society without language.

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

In Russia, you really learn about a person.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

The essence of Yungblud is connection. That's all I want to do: connect with people.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.