Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

The world is such a small place.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I think we are all connected in this world.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

Today we live in a global village but we don’t have our global elders to guide and inspire us.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.

I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

I'm no different than you.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.