Santi Cazorla Quotes

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

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.

Since I've been in an actor, I've lived in Italy, in London, in Stockholm - I had the fortune of working in different locations. If you live someplace long enough, you acquire slightly different systems of thought, and it influences your outlook on life. I just slowly adapted the way I speak.

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

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.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

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.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

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.

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

I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

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.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

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.

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

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.