Devon Cajuste Quotes

My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

There's really a lot of lessons that I've learned from being Miss Universe. I don't even know where to begin. Just being able to travel a lot and meet people from different walks of life. I don't think I've experienced anything like it or would experience anything like it.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

Travelling, in general, opens your mind to so many different cultures and different ways of thinking and different ways of seeing stuff. I definitely feel like it has an influence on my music to be a bit more broader and a bit more open.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

Why not travel, why not see the rest of the world, why not experience life? It's beautiful! Phenomenal!

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

I think going to another country and being able to evolve past my thinking and what actually went on in America was a little bit different from what athletes experience here in America.

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

I've been able to see the world many times over.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I want to be influenced by the world not TV or film.

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.