"The Ugly American" Quotes
"The Ugly American" explores the failures of American diplomacy in Southeast Asia through the contrasting efforts of culturally insensitive officials and a resourceful, empathetic engineer who strives to help local communities.
fiction | 288 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Hell, we're not here to do the things we like. We're here to do the things we're told.
The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you.
It's a strange world. Everybody's working hard, and nobody's happy.
The best way to get along with a foreign culture is not to try to change it.
The trouble with most Americans is that they don't know what they want until they get it.
The hardest thing to acquire is the faculty of being able to put ourselves in someone else's place and to appreciate how the world looks from that point of view.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
You have to know what you want. And if it seems worth it, you have to have the guts to go after it.
There's no one so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little.
You can't talk yourself out of a problem you behaved yourself into.
