Quotes About Exploration

I feel ashamed of how many houses I've actually crept inside of when they were up for sale. I'm not a snoop, but I love looking and imagining.

I love walking into an empty room and imagining what it could be.

When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn't want it showing up on the bill.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

In Toulouse, you immersed yourself in the culture of the place.

I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.

If you want to work in engineering and to have an impact that's global, come work in the aerospace sector.

What I tell business leaders is you're in the space industry - you just don't know it yet. Every industry will be impacted by space. The internet would not exist without space-based communication.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

I'm very impatient, and I'm very curious.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.