Toni Duggan Quotes

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.

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.

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

I have my brain switched on and I might be thinking something else but we've come to an arrangement. That sort of play is maybe easier with someone who also thinks that way. But that is not necessarily a national thing, but maybe a little bit of a cultural thing.

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

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.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

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.

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

Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.

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

Working with Europeans is very difficult. They require endless respect.

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

Foreigners are not like the people I am used to here.

What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.

American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.