Quotes About Exploration

We dare to jump so we can see something new. And sometimes we do it to recover a sense of what we once had.

Swimming is a way for us to remember how to play.

Some people unpack when they first arrive in a city. Me, I look for Chinatown.

I'm lost, I'll probably always be lost.

I'd given myself a license to look back, to lift up stones under which I knew lay creepy-crawlies.

Our work is borders, crossing them. Borders are a big attraction for me, leaving one country on the way to another, leaving one thought on the way to another, leaving our teens for our twenties, leaving East for West Germany. The liminal is the place to be. The bleeding edge. The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. No-man's-land is yes-man's-land.

story that will sketch out the first U2 album, Boy, including its cover and final track, "Shadows and Tall Trees," which borrows its title from chapter 7 of the book:

I'm drawn to conversation because in the best kind you don't know where you're going, only that you will get somewhere good.

The greatest songwriting is never conclusive, but the search for conclusion

I have gotten a large part of my education from actual contact with things, rather than through the medium of books. I like to touch things and handle them; I like to watch plants grow and observe the behaviour of animals.

Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I

Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.

It is a well-known fact that the farther one travels from the capital, the nearer one approaches to God.

She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

Space is like one's mind.... infinite

Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere. The great art is to get and to keep out of them.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

Financial coaches help clients create the future they want. Coaching includes practical considerations in the present and an exploration of the past experiences that may hinder or help clients in setting and achieving their goals.

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

We all live best in our imaginations.

What we are doing here is building a giant rocket ship, and we're going to light the fuse. Then it's either going to go to the moon or leave a giant smoking crater in the ground. Either way I want to be here when it happens.

willingness to try a lot of things and make many mistakes.