Jo Nesbo Quotes

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

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.

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

I like to travel and connect.

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.

Generally, I love traveling because it's great to see new places.

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.

The world invited me many places.

It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.

Traveling is a major source of inspiration. There is so much to learn from history and different cultures.

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.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

You get educated by traveling.

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.

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.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.