I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.
One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
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.
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.