Taylor Spreitler Quotes

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

You can learn a lot when you're around people that are completely different than yourself.

I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Travel teaches tolerance.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

It's hard to be judgmental once you've been around the world... it's pretty hard to be anything but understanding, and I think it's good for everybody to get out and see someplace other than where you grew up.

We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

I've seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that's helped me a lot in my career and helped me mature as a person.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.