Bikram Choudhury Quotes

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

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

I'm persuaded today that the only way you can get into another country with a different culture from your own is to find a local partner who knows the market. Discovering this felt like small children discovering that if you put a bobby pin into an electric plug you get a shock!

Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

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

Certainly, the foreigner the better.

When you start exporting ideas, philosophy, behavior, products, ways of living, it becomes an assault on the culture. Americans have to understand that.

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

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

A man who goes into a country must comply with the ceremonies in use there.

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.

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.

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.

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.

Wherever you go, respect the local culture or you will suffer.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

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.