We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

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.

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

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.

In you is a formidable force that can bring the desired change you want in the world. Stop waiting for the perfect time, go to work now!

You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people.

It was one of those rare occasions when the true story is even more strange and exciting than the wild rumours.

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

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The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

Horoscopes, like bad sitcoms, are created for people that I don't relate to.

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.

I'm the queen of the nerds.