200 Best Cross-Cultural Communication Quotes (2023)

1. Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication - Author: Deborah Tannen

2. 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. - Author: Edward T. Hall

3. “Where cross-cultural engagement is concerned, token adjustments are no longer an option. To advance a credible message of God’s love for all people in an increasingly diverse society, we must move ourselves entirely as well as the churches we lead. We must adjust to a new reality.”

4. All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking ... - Author: Deborah Tannen

5. “Determine what behaviors and beliefs you value as a company, and have everyone live true to them. These behaviors and beliefs should be so essential to your core, that you don’t even think of it as culture.”

6. “Diversity…is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do… And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that…will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.”

7. “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.” by Malcolm Bradbury.

8. “If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”

9. “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people” by Mahatma Gandhi.

10. “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the