Quotes About Exploration

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

I like to use the world as my gym. I walk around and if I see a stairwell I might do a couple of dips on the stairs.

In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.

The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental.

If you do the same thing over and over again, then you will definitely get stale and jaded like most actors do.

I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.

I think when artists close their ears to any music, when they won't do anything besides country music or rock music, they get stale.

In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Some people collect stamps; I like fashion, discovering nice new things. I feel good about doing that.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

'Stand-Up Planet' was Anthony Bourdain-meets-stand-up comedy.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do cabaret? Just from hearing the Beatles, it was like, 'Well, they did it. It's okay to write something other than a standard rock song.'

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

It's been a long time since we've been out there playing new material, and we have really enjoyed that. Of course we still enjoy playing the Yes standards as well, but it's great to have a bit of a challenge and pull off new material.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Realistically, my favorite thing really is going out and seeing the different problems that people have in different geographical areas. Not just from a standpoint of the area that they may be in or the city they may be in but the different kind of car culture or motorcycle culture there is.

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

I enjoy doing standup, but when I'm 50, I don't know if I'll still enjoy doing standup. It might be one of those things where I find other palettes that I want to paint on and make comedic.