Global Insight Quotes

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

The knowledge and experience of any local authority is but local knowledge and experience, confined to their own part of the country and its modes of management, whereas the central government has the means of knowing all that is to be learnt from the united experience of the whole kingdom, with the addition of easy access to that of foreign countries.

I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

I wanted to better inform the world.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.

I have a big bias to the people who understand global aspects.

My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.

A lot of what you need to know about countries you can learn from open sources and by understanding the language and the culture.