Seeing The World Quotes

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief…No one voice speaks for all voices.

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

When I’m really into a novel, I’m seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I’m actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn’t matter where.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it’s sheer, unadulterated discomfort you’re looking for, just stay on land.

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don’t even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

I’ll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

I don’t think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It’s a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.