Mao Zedong Quotes

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

You have to keep your eyes and heart open - there are always new things to discover, new problems to solve.

I go to yoga classes as well as practicing myself. I'm always open to new experiences and when I'm in different cities shooting, I try some local classes sometimes.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along. I'm constantly changing my perspective on my own life. I see the past differently, and that's a wonderful thing.

Never say never! I'm open to trying new things.

One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.