Quotes About Exploration

Creative agitation can serve you well. Embrace it. Look into that dark hole for answers, not fear.

The future is a door.

Follow the right wall. Right meaning the direction—pick the wall to the right of you and keep following it, and if it dead-ends, you stay on the right and turn around. Ultimately in this way, a maze would stretch out like a line—or was it a circle?—and you would find your way to its end.

Look for the little story. Look for the story about people. Then you wrap it in a generous swaddling of space ninjas and swamp monsters and explodey-boom-boom-pyoo-pyoo-zap.

The SUV carves its way through dark pine forests. Morning sun passes through the pleached trees, dappling the windows of the vehicle.

Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled- 'you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.' And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden?

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid—at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In

But our friendship was, at the same time, like a city you hadn't visited in a long time, where you know the streets by heart but the shops and restaurants have changed, so you can find your way from the church to the town square, no problem, but you don't know where to get ice cream or a decent sandwich.

Love and sex exist along a continuum of desire for most people. It's a matter of learning your true self—of jettisoning all the societal dictates and nonsense that can shut you down before you've even given yourself a chance. An open mind and a willingness to learn are all you need. Isn't that right, Marjorie?

This isn't Tokyo.

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.

I believe that science is not simply a matter of exploring new horizons. One must also make the new knowledge readily available .. of such a pedagogical effort.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.

We adhere to the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," while not really questioning whether "it" is "broke.

Markets that do not exist cannot be analyzed: Suppliers and customers must discover them together.

important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off. When you find out what really works for you, then it's time to flip from an emergent strategy to a deliberate one.

already know. It's like finding a needle in a haystack—

That was how it started, Enoch thought, almost a hundred years ago. The campfire fantasy had turned into fact and the Earth now was on galactic charts, a way station for many different peoples traveling star to star. Strangers once, but now there were no strangers. There were no such things as strangers. In whatever form, with whatever purpose, all of them were people.

Delectable," Ulysses said. "Of all the drinks that I have drank on all the planets I have visited, the coffee is the best.