Hideo Kojima Quotes

I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.

If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

I'm constantly being approached by people who say, 'You've introduced me to a new world that I didn't even know I liked.' Even if I didn't set out to do that, I'm very proud that I have.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Being in a new country, you learn a lot about yourself.

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.

I really wanted to put myself out of my comfort zone, and that meant leaving England and really changing culture and different ideas and philosophies in a club environment.

Travelling by myself is always more of an adventure: I meet more people. I experience the place to the fullest. I'm on my own schedule.

It takes me to places I never would have gone, and I've met people all because what I do for a living.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.

Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

Fairly apolitical. Kind of aspiring to participate in life. I'm 18-19 years old. Wanting to dive into the world and finding the world opening for me in ways that were unimaginable. I didn't sleep for the whole first year at university because it was too much going on. Too many films to see, too many concerts to go to.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.