Hans Rosling Quotes

I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I like knowing what's going on in the world - even if most of the time I feel helpless.

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.

So having a little more of an awareness of what's going on in the rest of the world I think is what many Canadians would hope for Americans.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

I grew up in a household where we talked about the state of the world over breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I want to help, and I wanna learn more about what's going on in the world. I just wanna be alert.

I'd just like to see athletes awake. And aware. There's so much going on and so much to know... We stay in our little boxes and don't think much about the outside world.

I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.

Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is going on, we have a powerful history and tradition of taking an interest in what is going on in the world, we've also got a very real interest in the future, in remaining connected.

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?