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Quotes About Exploration

I'm not sure what I'll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.
~ Terrence Howard
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
~ Fred Astaire
I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.
~ Summer Altice
I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.
~ Lucien Carr
Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
~ Tony Robbins
I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.
~ Nigel Kennedy
What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.
~ Michael Fassbender
People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
~ Charles Mathias
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.
~ John N. Bahcall
We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.
~ Stephen Hawking
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
~ Harrison Ford
A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new.
~ Katy Perry
Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
~ Anderson Cooper
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
~ Carol Shields
Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
~ John Cassavetes
Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.
~ Hugh Prather
Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.
~ Neil Postman
(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought.
~ Cassandra Clare
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
~ Donald Knuth
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
~ Andrew Wiles
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
~ Ross Perot
When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
~ Michio Kaku