Sam Altman Quotes

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something - I worked in HR at the time - they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

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.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.

A different language is a different vision of life.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

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