Esther Dyson Quotes

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

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.

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.

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

I actually love the challenge of being in a new place where I'm so obviously the foreigner.

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.

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.

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

I like to absorb the atmosphere and explore wherever I'm working or visiting, so I can't say there's any type of place I don't like. When you travel you have to be open to new experiences.

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.

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

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 enjoyed living abroad. I enjoyed the differences as much as anything.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

I travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come back with me from these travels.But I must trust that I will not treat frivolously the glimpses I've been given into other places and others' lives.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

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

I have a very broad range of life experiences.

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

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

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.