Quotes About Exploration

Some day I'll find out what I want to do when I grow up.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

she would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.

Who Do You Think You Are?

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.

We have to tell stories to unriddle the world

People didn't just hand you their secrets. You had to go hunting for them.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. — AndrÉ Gide

innovation is all about being distracted —distracted from the way we normally think about things.

Unless, as leaders, we are willing to enter this in-between space that disrupts our settled assumptions and threatens our formulas and expectations, we will remain locked into a monologue of church questions and strategies.

Just as one will not get far on the road to happiness by predefining the characteristics of happiness and then going to look for them, we will not grasp what it means to be the church in our time by beginning with church questions, even if they are questions about the church's health, effectiveness, or its natural development!

In natural science, Nature has given us a world and we're just to discover its laws. In computers, we can stuff laws into it and create a world.

Alan MacDonald

Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

Great Inititates are characterized less by their cosmic wisdom than by the deep knowledge that they are endless beginners at all times, with an infinity of things to learn

I'm always more at home with those who are seeking answers than with those who say they have them.

With all the apps available on our cell phones, it seems to me we're getting closer and closer to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Starfleet tricorders.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.