Quotes About Discovery

The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.

I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.

I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

Travelling by myself is always more of an adventure: I meet more people. I experience the place to the fullest. I'm on my own schedule.

I love travelling. I love cultures.

It doesn't matter where you are, you can just put your runners on and go. When I'm travelling, it's a really good way to get to know a city - especially if you've never been there before.

I love travelling and use my time abroad to be inspired.

I love travelling. I'll go anywhere. I think it's so much fun.

Travelling is a key part of my life. It keeps me inspired, takes me to new places, introduces me to new sounds, and allows me to explore new environments and soundscapes.

Travelling helps me rejuvenate and de-stress.

I love travelling.

Michael Palin and Paul Theroux are my travelling icons. I have a soft spot for Joanna Lumley. I'd love to go on an adventure with her.

I enjoy travelling, experimenting with food and trying out different cuisines.

Travelling is an experience and you have to experience it as a whole.

One of my travelling bugbears is just people-watching or sticking to a rigid to-do list without venturing further afield.

Travelling exposes you to diverse culture, art and dance.

I like travelling to different places and trying out different cuisines. I like experimenting with my food.

I'm OK travelling, meeting people, seeing the world with my own eyes.

But, as a kid, I was travelling. Africa, Singapore, Australia, America, South Pacific, Philippines, France - I spent two years in each place and eventually made my way back to Edinburgh University for five years.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

At the heart of the best documentaries, there is a journey of inquiry - someone who travels out into the world, comes back with a story, and who then finds meaning in it, and intrigue; someone who tells you about something you never quite knew before, or in a way you hadn't quite thought about.