Quotes About Exploration

NOWHERE TO RUN. 1 Three hours after he'd broken camp, repacked, and pushed his horses higher into the mountain range, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett paused on the lip of a wide hollow basin and dug in his saddlebag for his notebook.

Hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.

You're a Boy Scout?" "Well, I was until I got kicked out." "What did you get kicked out for?" "I kept getting lost.

The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.

ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1492, Don Cristóbal Colón—newly entitled as High Admiral and newly appointed a noble of our court—departs the port of Palos. He travels with three ships—the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. Serenaded by his crew, he stands at the prow of the Santa María, the wind ruffling his silvery hair. He looks ahead, always ahead, to the horizon.

I've read everything, man, I've tried macrobiotics psychoanalysis drugs acupuncture suicide yoga dance swimming jogging astrology roller-skating Marxism Candomblé gay clubs ecology, all that's left is this knot in my chest, so now what do I do?

Zézim, ninguém te ensinará os caminhos. Ninguém me ensinará os caminhos. Ninguém nunca me ensinou caminho nenhum, nem a você, suspeito. Avanço às cegas. Não há caminhos a serem ensinados, nem aprendidos. Na verdade, não há caminhos.

Já li tudo, cara, já tentei macrobiótica psicanálise drogas acupuntura suicídio ioga dança natação cooper astrologia patins marxismo candomblé boate gay ecologia, sobrou só esse nó no peito, agora faço o quê?

hub-and-spoke-style arrangement: Expose yourself to ideas in hubs on a regular basis, but maintain a spoke in which to work deeply on what you encounter.

First, how do you inject free time into your schedule without simply quitting everything and looking like a slacker? Second, how do you effectively "explore" in this free time without having it degenerate into a morass of TV watching and Web surfing?

Finding useful new technologies is just the first step to improving your life. The real benefits come once you start experimenting with how best to use them.

Great missions are transformed into great successes as the result of using small and achievable projects- little bets- to explore the concrete possibilities surrounding a compelling idea.

Even old ideas require new investigation to underscore their continued relevance.

taking on projects that were beyond his current comfort zone;

Rather than believing they have to start with a big idea or plan out a whole project in advance," he writes, "they make a methodical series of little bets about what might be a good direction, learning critical information from lots of little failures and from small but significant wins" [emphasis mine]. This rapid and frequent feedback, Sims argues, "allows them to find unexpected avenues and arrive at extraordinary outcomes.

Sometimes to go deep, you must first go big.

Every week, I expose myself to something new about my field. I can read a paper, attend a talk, or schedule a meeting. To ensure that I really understand the new idea, I require myself to add a summary, in my own words, to my growing "research bible

little bet, in the setting of mission exploration, has the following characteristics: It's a project small enough to be completed in less than a month. It forces you to create new value (e.g., master a new skill and produce new results that didn't exist before). It produces a concrete result that you can use to gather concrete feedback.

This doesn't mean that Jane would have had to resign herself to a life of boring work. On the contrary, the law could have provided her structure to keep exploring variations on her adventurous life vision until she could find one to pursue that would actually yield results.

Other interviews in the archive promote this same idea that it's hard to predict in advance what you'll eventually grow to love.

Still, it's an interesting technique--leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And *in* someone else.

I believe half of a writer's job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things, information about another world that entertains you and informs you.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

Those of us who are working with these strange substances trying to find the best way of using them, both in the treatment of illnesses and for the exploration of the human mind, need men like Bishop to come forward and explain that our purposes are serious and good, to emphasize that this is not a diversion, an amusement or an attempt to relieve people of their spare cash. -Robert Dickins