Iman Quotes

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

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

Value the perspective of different cultures and recognize the cultural mores that underpin groups and appreciate why these are valued and important.

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.

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.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

It's very white in Guernsey, not racist, but there's not a lot of understanding about different cultures there. So I grew up there then moved to Brighton and found all these other people with different experiences, different narratives.

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

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

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.

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.

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

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

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.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

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.

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

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

Certainly, the foreigner the better.

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

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.

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

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.

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.