Quotes About Exploration

You need to be open and explore while heading where you want to go. You can never be too in love with your own ideas. If you can remember every idea that is yours in a script, as opposed to someone else's, then something is wrong.

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

It's important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder - don't be tired about it.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.

Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

You've gotta learn to love yourself and live your own life. Then you can go out in the world and try and figure everything else out.

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.