Broadening Horizons Quotes

When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.

To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just speculation.

Always good to shake it up and do something different.

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

I'm big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don't want it to ever be typecasted.

When you're starting out, say yes to everything you can.

Americans are the pick of the more adventurous and people of all races.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

I don't limit myself as long as the content is good.

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

A man who limits his interests, limits his life.