Howard Gardner Quotes

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.

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

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

I feel like I'm cultured enough to fit into any environment.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

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.

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

I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The challenge is always around culture. I think that's often underestimated because people focus on the substance and the practical; soft steps go missing.

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 do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.

I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.

... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.