Quotes About Exploration

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

When I was little, I went through a lot of phases, like any girl.

I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.

Like a lot of us, I went through some phases on the way to finding what I felt comfortable in as myself.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

David Attenborough's 'Life' series is phenomenal. He's a wonderful modern soothsayer.

The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

We should do 'Takeaway' from Chicago or Philadelphia. We'd have great fun with it.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

There is so much more to the Philippines than just Manila. The beauty is in the neighboring islands.

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

I love revisiting, actually. I went back to the Philippines. I've done three films in the Philippines.

I do really love New York. I feel like there are more Asian restaurants. Philly has a sick food scene, I don't want to diss it at all. But New York is so much bigger and there are more options.

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania.

Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.