Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

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 culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren’t we all a little crazy anyway?

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

Money is really only important if you don't have any.

Human beings create more than they destroy.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

There can be miracles when you believe.