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Quotes About Discovery

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
~ John Muir
If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know. You want to find out what they're doing, how they're doing it, and then you'll let them know you know.
~ Nancy Pelosi
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
~ Bill Watterson
Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
~ George Washington Carver
Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
~ Alberto Giacometti
I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.
~ Rodney Mullen
I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.
~ Ray Bradbury
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
~ Beverly Cleary
I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
~ Egon Schiele
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
~ William Stafford
I'm not sure what I'll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
~ Fred Astaire
I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.
~ Lucien Carr
I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.
~ Alberto Giacometti
Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.
~ Jamie Wyeth
People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
~ Charles Mathias
You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
~ Diana Vreeland
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.
~ John N. Bahcall
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.
~ Stephen Hawking
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.
~ Marc Jacobs
Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.
~ Paulo Coelho
A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new.
~ Katy Perry
Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
~ Anderson Cooper
Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
~ John Cassavetes