Quotes About Exploration

I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.

For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

If you're going somewhere international, try to learn a little bit of the language. It goes a long way to be able to introduce yourself, ask for things, and even say hello to someone in a new country!

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.

I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I started to wonder where a lot of these samples came from. So I fell in love with Bobby Womack or Willie Hutch because I wanted to know where those samples came from.

I would take the jeepney all the way to Angeles City, and that's how I got introduced to break dancing.

One of my best friends is quite into rap, and I'm always being introduced to music by him.

Mahesh Bhatt introduced me to the world of films.

I like introducing people to new dishes and new flavors.

I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.

I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid... I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

Truly new inventions take time to play out.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.