Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

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.

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.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

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

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.

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.

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.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.

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.

We face a world where borders matter less and less.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The world is opening up. We all learn what is happening elsewhere. … The individual is fast becoming aware of his or her rights.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.

There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.