Quotes About Exploration

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to do what's visible to you.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.

I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this."

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.