Quotes About Exploration

I have to always check back in with my imagination just to remember that I have this infinite potential, and I can do anything, and anything is possible.

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.

I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys.

I like to do some research and learn about the destination before I travel there. I read up on its history, culture and food, which is most important. Being informed makes the travel so much better.

I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction.

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

I love clothes and going to supermarkets. I spend hours walking around the aisles looking at ingredients.

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If you're going to inhabit someone else's world, the very least you can do is to spend a little time in it.

We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.

There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

When you're initially making music, you're kind of just shooting at the air.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

I disliked people calling me a chocolate hero initially, as I wanted to explore other genres of acting.

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.

I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.