Quotes About Exploration

Confidence, to me, is just pushing yourself a little bit further than you think you can go, and you'll always surprise yourself.

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a long list of how often I've been surprised by the richness of nature.

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

I'll try anything once. It's always good to see peoples' faces surprised - surprised that I race, or that I surf, that I trekked through the Himalayas. As long as I don't die, I'm good.

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.

You'd be surprised how inspired you'll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

In 2025, don't be surprised if a Chinese flag is placed on the moon.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything. I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

Try everything on, even gowns that you don't think you'll love. You might be surprised and fall in love with a gown that you weren't drawn to at first.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.

One of the things I love about my job is that it offers me an opportunity to step into different people and different spaces and different kinds of work in every new thing that I do. I'm just looking forward to the surprises I'm going to have.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.