Quotes About Exploration

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.

But don't limit yourself too much either. Always be looking for new opportunities to improve incrementally.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic. How

The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

My only hope for my future is I learn to dot the landscape of my life once more with question marks instead of periods. To turn judgments into queries. To turn "this" into "that?" To make every problem a maze. To be like a six-year-old.

Mastery begins when formal education ends. Find the topic that sets your heart on fire. Then combust.

IMPROVE YOUR APPROACH. You keep getting rejected in bars? Find a different place, where the odds aren't stacked against you. Nobody responding to your networking e-mails for "Ten minutes of your time please?" Then offer something. Give something for free so people immediately see value in your approach immediately. You keep cold-calling customers and they hang up? Find a different way to get distribution. CHANGE UP, DON'T GIVE UP.

In one column is the list of ideas. In the other column is the list of "First Steps"—only the first step, because you have no idea where that first step will take you.

We live in a world where the yellow brick road has many forks and can take us on many incredible journeys.

On a much smaller scale, I

Every day, be creative. Creativity is a muscle.

We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money.

Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle.

Try many things. One thing I realized is that quantity equals quality. People think it's one or the other but it's not. When you have a quantity of ideas and things you are trying, you will find quality.

Don't run scared to another country. They aren't better. They are, for the most part, far worse.

Is this just a dream? Can life be lived so large? Have I been able to live life so large? To live to my fullest potential?

I keep telling my kids, if they want to learn to sing, or to tap dance, or draw manga comics, or to do anything, learn everything you can about all the masters in your field over the past 100 years.

Why limit yourself to a single passion? Here's a secret: you don't have to worry about "finding" your passion. You're naturally going to get passionate about what you are good

Come up with ten ideas you can write newsletters about.

Every day I seek out mentors: people who have great experience to help me, particularly in areas I am new to, excited about, and know nothing about.

natural state for human beings. We need to explore. We're curious. We want to adapt constantly to new environments and use the part of our brain that evolved specifically so we could create new works of art or new productions.

Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction - creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically.

But deep inside you there is a creative force that desperately wants you to succeed, wants you to make a lot of money, wants you to fall in love and be happy, wants you to do these things not so you can live in exotic mansions and travel the world fifty times over, but so that you are free from the constraints of a normal job and can pursue the real exploration of what and where is the happiness around you.