Quotes About Exploration

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

I like to travel by myself.

Aprendía mal y a medias una lección: la gente se moría. Al morir, ¿dónde quedaba?, ¿eran ya para siempre inaccesibles? Transitaba como la cabeza de la tortuga, de la vida a la muerte, preguntándome dónde estaba la línea segura. Y no veía bien a bien dónde pararme para saber que estaba en territorio firme. Sobre todo porque comenzaba una exploración que ponía en juego la apariencia de los vivos.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

Mi patria escabrosa y recóndita, siempre esperando por mí. Riachuelos por cuya corriente huyen los peces rojos del pretérito imperfecto, montañas dentadas de gerundios, cuestas a rribas flanqueadas por signos de admiración y puntos suspensivos, angostos desfiladeros donde se hila la oración compuesta, árboles frondosos de adjetivos o desnudos de ellos, praderas atisbadas en sueños y a las que sólo se llega por el puente inestable del condicional.

Casi no se atrevía a respirar, allí escondida. La verdad es que era una emoción mezclada de miedo. Pero miss Lunatic le había dicho que, frente a las aventuras nuevas, siempre se siente algo de miedo y que no hay más remedio que vencerlo.

Eight: the age of exploration, of ghosts and secret forays; the age at which a mystery lurks behind every curtain and every armoire opens into a magical world, which you may enter at any time, but who knows when you will return.

Great conversations or presentations take you to ideas you'd never considered.

Studying brands outside of your industry can spark creative brainstorms.

One technique to jump-start your creativity is to embrace new experiences.

You must trust that, by following your curiosity, the pieces will ultimately fit.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith." —MICKEY HART

His seeking hands had toured more unclaimed territory than Lewis and Clark!

Carol J. Perry

Indeed, the goal is only to follow the path, for there is no "there" to get to; there is only the path, and the job of treading upon it as well as we can.

I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.

A full appreciation of this crucial position requires an examination of the Confederate defense on this side of Antietam Creek and a walk across the famous Burnside Bridge to explore the IX Corps' efforts to cross the span and push up to this high ground and beyond.

Life is just a lot of everyday adventures.

the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day.

But the delight of wading that clear mountain water, scrambling over rocks, or sitting on a boulder in the sunshine and gazing with dreaming eyes into the brown pebbled pools below, was enough joy without feeling the tug of a trout on the end of the line. Often we could see them in the sun-flecked depths below, quiet as shadows except for the occasional waving of a fin.

Riding around on Minnie's shoulder But

What on earth would make someone a nonlearner? Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily. Not just ordinary skills, but the most difficult tasks of a lifetime, like learning to walk and talk. They never decide it's too hard or not worth the effort. Babies don't worry about making mistakes or humiliating themselves. They walk, they fall, they get

Benjamin Barber, an eminent sociologist, once said, "I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures.… I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners." What