Quotes About Exploration

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

He came to value his own critical thinking over the completion of a finished product. Whether it was a painting, a book, or an experiment, it was the process rather than the outcome that mattered to him.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow

balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Want something you've never had? Do something you've never done!

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

The road to Hades is easy to travel.

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Costume and custom are complex. The headgear of the other sex inspires us to experiment.

Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out.

Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions

Think about your work situation. Do you treat your creativity like a fossil fuel—a limited resource that must be conserved—or have you harnessed the unending power of the sun? Are you in an environment where creativity thrives? Is there room for new ideas every day? Can you make room?

Blaise Cendrars

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Imagination decides everything.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

If you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new

I may be taking a risk on it, which is alright, because if you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.

Could you go to that log?" I asked him. "No," he said, admitting the changes in the landscape and in himself, "I couldn't find that log today.

we can visit libraries, go to free places in the city, and think again

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.