Martin Jacques Quotes

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

It's not easy for a foreigner to come to England and win the respect of your team-mates, of the fans, and of the English people.

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

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

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

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

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

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 benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

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

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.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

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

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

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

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

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.

I couldn't get along with the French.

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.

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

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.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.