Quotes About Exploration

Picasso also says, "I am always doing things I can't do—that's how I get to do them.

Go to the bookstore. Find a topic you would be willing to read five hundred books on.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Love was a country he knew nothing about.

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

When you're writing, you're trying to find out something which you don't know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don't want to know, what you don't want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.

I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with what you find, or what you find will do to you.

I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored.

And everything was different. I was walking through streets I had never seen before. The faces around me, I had never seen. We moved in silence which was music from everywhere.

Does she want you or does she not want you?' 'She went to Spain,' I said, 'to find out'. Giovanni open his eyes wide. He was indignant. 'To Spain. Why not to China? What is she doing, testing all the Spaniards and comparing them with you?

We crossed crowded Sixth Avenue, all kinds of people out hunting for Saturday night.

Well, when in Rome, said Jurgen, one must be romantic.

There is nothing I find more exciting than picking a question that I don't know the answer to and embarking on a quest for answers.

3M didn't sell raw materials, so there was no business to transact. But McKnight—curiosity piqued and on the prowl for interesting new ideas that might move the company forward—asked a simple question: "Why does Mr. Okie want these samples?"35

When you turn over rocks and look at all the squiggly things underneath, you can either put the rock down, or you can say, 'My job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things,' even if what you see can scare the hell out of you."25 That quote, from Pitney Bowes executive Fred Purdue

When you turn over rocks and look at all the squiggly things underneath, you can either put the rock down, or you can say, 'My job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things,' even if what you see can scare the hell out of you."25 That quote, from Pitney Bowes executive Fred Purdue, could have come from any of the Pitney Bowes

When you turn over rocks and look at all the squiggly things underneath, you can either put the rock down, or you can say, 'My job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things,' even if what you see can scare the hell out of you."25

For nearly three hundred years, the Spanish calendar for the Philippines had been one day ahead of the Spanish calendar, because Magellan's expedition had not, of course, adjusted for their westward travel halfway around the globe.

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

I wandered from village to village. A few days here, half a year there, like a butterfly on the summer's breath.

A liar can go around the world, but can never come back.

There's no key to the woods and fields.

There's no key to the woods and fields.