Alain Prost Quotes

I speak five languages, which actually makes it easier when you join a new team. You can settle much quicker because you can help team-mates much faster and better. People need to be careful around me, though - I can understand everything.

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local language.

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

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

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.

Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.

I don't think you've ever coached till you've coached an Asian team.

Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.

When I worked with Chinese crew for the first time, including production unit, spot boys etc, everyone was so affectionate, sweet and kind.

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

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.

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.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

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.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

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

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

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

The world looks different and is understood differently at every spot on earth. Without accepting this simple truth it is hard for us to grasp the behavior of others, the motives and aims of those actions.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.