Patrick Vieira Quotes

Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

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.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day.

If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my own, I would not have been able to be successful.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

Wherever you go, respect the local culture or you will suffer.

I spent 13 years in Spain, and when you spend that amount of time somewhere, it has a deep influence on you.

I think it's important to learn about the culture of the place where you live.

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But when we go over to someone else's, I don't think we are willing to meet them halfway like we expect them to meet us. I think having cultural sensitivity is a lot more important than we realize.