Sidney Sheldon Quotes

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.

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.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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.

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

We have an amazing job. We get to travel around the world and experience different cultures and just learn so many things.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

This is my hobby. Reaching out, getting to know other people's cultures, traveling to other people's countries.

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