Quotes About Adventurousness

If you can't plan it in advance, you have to see how it goes as you do it

Which ones I was not sure, only that passion and danger, ecstasy and despair (but then more ecstasy) would be in attendance. However Ã¢â'¬Â¦ who said that thing about "the littleness of life that art exaggerates"? There was a moment in my late twenties when I admitted that my adventurousness had long since petered out. I would never do those things adolescence had dreamt about. Instead, I mowed my lawn, I took holidays, I had my life.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I have never planned in life. For me the medium is not important - what matters is the role.

Era este hombre muy estirado y relamido, y la gente estirada y relamida suele vivir habitualmente en un mundo tan reducido que cualquier cosa violenta e inusitada les puede sacar brusca y completamente de él; por ello, esta clase de gente suele desconfiar instintivamente de todo lo que represente una cierta originalidad.

I like taking risks with things.

I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they'll find a way to wear something if they like it.

During the early stages of a project, don't study how the task has been approached in the company, industry, field, or region where you are working.

I've always appreciated having a wide music taste, despite making what a lot of people would call electronic music.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

We take girls and send them to schools. It is good of us, because girls are not supposed to know anything much, and in many other societies girls are not sent to school or taught to read and write. In our society, such a generous one to women, girls are taught some facts, but not inquiry or the passion of knowing. Girls are taught in order to make them compliant: intellectual adventurousness is drained, punished, ridiculed out of girls.

Branching out to other genres - I think it's why people put me apart from other guitar instrumentalists.

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

I like people who are always doing things that would never have occurred to me at that moment.

Liberals score higher on measures of neophilia (also known as "openness to experience"), not just for new foods but also for new people, music, and ideas. Conservatives are higher on neophobia; they prefer to stick with what's tried and true, and they care a lot more about guarding borders, boundaries, and traditions.

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room.

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.