Matthew Settle Quotes

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

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

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

Working abroad made me better.

In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it's so cool, and I've grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.

As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It's the little things, like ordering food in a different language, buying petrol or learning to drive on the other side of the road, but they all add up to making you a more rounded, educated person.

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

Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had planned to go for three months, but I stayed four years. I just got lost in the culture.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

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

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

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.

When I go home to England, my friends all make fun of me for sounding American.