Quotes About Exploration

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk. This line from the Spanish poet Antonio Machado

You give up a lot when you venture into an environment that you can't control and where your senses don't serve you in dependable ways.

ways that I never imagined.

Ludwig Wittgenstein that I came across in college: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." What

only when we're brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light

We aren't curious about something we are unaware of or know nothing about. This has huge implications for education. Loewenstein explains that simply encouraging people to ask questions doesn't go very far toward stimulating curiosity. He writes, "To induce curiosity about a particular topic, it may be necessary to 'prime the pump' "—

there is nothing more uncertain than the creative process, and there is absolutely no innovation without failure.

Interest is a cognitive openness to engaging with a topic or experience. Curiosity is recognizing a gap in our knowledge about something that interests us, and becoming emotionally and cognitively invested in closing that gap through exploration and learning. Curiosity often starts with interest and can range from mild curiosity to passionate investigation.

gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. I wanted to develop research that explained the anatomy of connection. Studying connection

curiosity is deviant.

We all have to find our own way deep into the wild.

Somente quando temos coragem suficiente para explorar a escuridão, descobrimos o poder infinito de nossa própria luz.

Curiosity is a shit-starter. But that's okay. Sometimes we have to rumble with a story to find the truth.

Joseph Campbell's wisdom: "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

You don't wander into the wilderness unprepared.

We must be guardians of a space that allows students to breathe and be curious and explore the world and be who they are without suffocation. They deserve one place where they can rumble with vulnerability and their hearts can exhale.

So, you want to see the house?" he asked, standing up. "Sure. Any cool futuristic gizmos you can show me? Food replicators or a holodeck or something?" "Funny. It's not Star Trek.

THE MIDDLE OF nowhere just got a lot more interesting!

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

The only way to find your true self is by recklessness and freedom.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

testing is an idea generation activity, rather than a plan implementation activity.

Don't flee from boredom. Go all the way into it; go all the way through the bottom of boredom!