Nia Sharma Quotes

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

To live abroad you have to grow up quickly.

I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.

I spent 12 years traveling more than six months a year. I really needed to see the world.

Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.

Moving out and living on my own was a big thing, but to be in a different country with different coaches and a different mentality changed me as a person, as a player, the way I think about things and the way I see people.

For vacation, I like going to places I've never been before. I've gone to some remote places, like the Arctic Circle.

Being in a new country, you learn a lot about yourself.

We're really creating a whole different kind of travel experience. One that really celebrates the different places, different cultures, the different cities and immerses you in that culture.

I lived in Paris for about nine months. It was an experience.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

Living in England is fascinating: I discover a new world every day.

When you travel to a new country, your spirit has to catch up with you. I love going for a run when I land; it keeps me active and helps my body adjust to the new time zone.

I love London. I came here to discover something different. It's a great city; I like how people think here.

Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.

Moving to France is not the hard part. Living here is more difficult. Of course there are many benefits but it's not always easy especially if you don't speak the language.

When you step off a plane into a place like Haiti, you're just surrounded by overwhelming stimulus: the people selling you things, asking you to engage.