Global View Quotes

People will come back and influence their communities to get excited about space. Space funding will increase because people will see the benefit it has to the way people relate to the world, the way people relate to problems, and the way people view themselves.

I am not concerned about my foreign audience.

It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product.

I don't think it's any different if I'm in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.

Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don't share.

Spending years between America and Israel, I have gained a global view, and the planet is my home.

One should be constantly looking for the broader vision.

The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

I think at times, too many people focus on just little things and not focus on what the whole question and the whole answer is.

Cultural differences - they are definitely vast in some ways. But I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.

The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself up. That is just not true.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons.

If you ask every American out there what kind of a people we are, we would all say, "Oh, we're really good people. We do good things in the world." Then you go around the world and ask what America is like, there's a completely different conceptualization of what we are.

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.

People who put Europe in the center of the universe, they're very fragile.

People don't look at the broader picture a lot of the time.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

CIA relies on a partner's focus, linguistic agility, and cultural depth; in return, the partner benefits from CIA's resources, technology, and global view.

There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.

Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world.

If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

I think one of the critiques of me is that I thought I knew it all. But I was learning from the enormous resources available within the U.S. government who have a very different view of the world than many of the people commenting on foreign policy from outside of the government.