Manuel Pellegrini Quotes

I love going into a country and just blending.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.