Blake Mycoskie Quotes

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

India always changes people, and I have been no exception

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

After college, I drove across the country twice with friends. It was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. I find it really inspiring seeing the country that way.

I didn't do very well when I was at school, so my dad gave me the opportunity to travel in Africa. I drove from London to Nairobi. It was incredible.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.

When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'

Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.

Genuinely, the first gig I did when I was 18, it felt like the world shifted. I realised that I had stumbled upon a mechanism through which you could view life.

Traveling changes you as a person. If you buy something, it's so different than if you put your money into traveling.

Defining moments are the moments that either define you, or you define the moment.

So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.

In life's journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.

It's been amazing to touch people's lives.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of "Tomorrow's Shoes," but I could only fit "TOMS" on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it's an idea for a better tomorrow.

On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.

I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?