47 quotes found
“Id learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured Id learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.”
“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.”
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.”
“I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.”
“Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!”
“My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.”
“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.”
“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadnt even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed w...”
“In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.”
“In order to live without creating any serious problems for the group's harmony, people avoid expressing their ideas clearly, even the point of avoiding giving a simple yes or no answer. If a person...”
“We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was ...”
“Dont take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.”
“When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.”
“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, ...”
“Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.”
“Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.”
“In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren't enough euros to go a...”
“I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embr...”
“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. o...”
“Technology has become the West’s main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West, and the reason why the non-West should adopt Western culture. If advanced technology is particula...”
