Michael Oakshott Quotes

Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

With every person you meet, there is a new and exciting experience to be had.

One of the things I love about this job is meeting different people.

I think that's part of the beautiful game. It's kind of this special relationship that happens in football, where you get kind of influenced by the people around you and the different cultures around you and it allows you to grow and develop.

We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

I talk to everyone, but most of the people I hang out with are Latin.

I mess with white girls, Asian girls, Spanish girls, black girls, everything.

I want to create a market where people from all walks of life can encounter each other in an atmosphere of beautiful chaos, the coming together of kindred souls.

I kick it with a whole bunch of people, whereas some people only want you to kick it with one race, you know.

I grew up with a lot of friends who are white, black, Muslim, non-Muslim. I like people a lot.

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

People are so much more interested in making connections, and finding common ground, and sharing experiences than sometimes their governments are.

Sport is the biggest part of my life. It has allowed me to meet different people from various cultures and background and has greatly enriched my life.

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.