Philip Roth Quotes

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

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

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

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I'll make a Soca music reference, I'll use a Tamil word, I'll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I'm not afraid to indulge in their culture.

Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

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

Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

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.

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.

You can't share things about India with Americans, as they don't seem interested. Their culture is different.

Cultural differences can be delicate situations we have to work within the respectful boundaries of.

I think when you move to a country like the U.S., you need to understand the culture, to understand how people see the game, and adapt yourself.

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

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

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.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.