Quotes About Exploration

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry ' or 'Movies ' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won't let us look anywhere else in the room if there's a map on the wall.

Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats of Buicks

If you never open a map until you're lost, you're missing out on all the fun.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Brides and babies and strong dark men and intellectual and sensual women and the prospect of wide-open spaces to populate with humanity had always made her weak at the knees.

to both sides before trying the handle; it moved

Take the first step... and the next will be revealed.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

My life, like yours, is a constant process of improvisation between my interests and personality on the one hand and circumstances and opportunities on the other.

The quest for your Element is really a two-way journey. It is an inward journey to explore what lies within you; it is an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you.

We don't know who we can be until we know what we can do.

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

You can think of creativity as a conversation between what we're trying to figure out and the media we are using.

was, "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never produce anything original." The second was, "Great education depends on great teaching.

Creativity is call and response: one idea can catalyze a multitude more in the minds of other people.

No sabremos lo que podemos llegar a ser hasta que no sepamos lo que somos capaces de hacer.

This book contains a wide range of stories about the creative journeys of very different people.

What I loved about this was that it illustrated that, when they are very young, kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong.

What is true is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

El juego es absolutamente fundamental para el aprendizaje: es el fruto natural de la curiosidad y de la imaginación.