Vijay Singh Quotes

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.

I've been able to see the world many times over.

Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught me things that I never would have learned otherwise. And it was always about the rhythm in those two countries - that's why I love them.

You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way, not the places I've been, that have opened my eyes.

People grow up by living.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

It is good to live and learn.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live in a place where you don't. Suffering is over-rated, don't pursue it. Ask for help when you need it, don't when you don't, and learn to recognize the difference. Don't confuse movement and progress. Be kind. Be forgiving. Pay attention.

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.