Quotes About Exploration

Long ago, Louis Wu had stood at the void edge of Mount Lookitthat. The Long Fall River, on that world, ends in the tallest waterfall in known space. Louis's eyes had followed it down as far as they could penetrate the void mist. The featureless white of the void itself had grasped at his mind, and Louis Wu, half hypnotized, had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all there was to see? Now he reaffirmed that decision.

Silence as I am using the term is a dimension of existence. You can live in it. It is what spiritual life is all about. It is quite literally unfathomable, limitless space permeated by a vast stillness. In a way it is inside us—that is where we seek it—though at some point in our exploration words like inside and outside, all the spatial terms I've been forced to use, don't mean a thing.

Having a strong vision can help with innovation, but so much creativity and innovation comes from one's ability to take risks – controlled risks – and learn from mistakes.

I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

I think I'd like to be beautiful and heartless for a while, just to see what it's like.

I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing the dishes and mopping the floor. It would be like what Keats said about gazing through a magic casement into faery lands forlorn.

He could not breathe freely unless the land spread open in front of him. There were no awkward questions, no uncomfortable demands here, only the sky and the soil and the steady beat of hooves and heart in tandem.

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

The men in my life are always like the countries I visit: I fall in love briefly and then move on. I visit, regard the wonders, delve into the history, taste the cooking, peer into dark corners, feel a few moments of excitement and maybe ecstasy and bliss, and then, though I am often sad to leave - or stung that no one insists that I stay - I am on my way.

Ahora tú debes decidir si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia.

Ahora tu debes decidir si seguirás siendo una oyente, o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia. Oki

Cali pensaba que las personas eran como los portales: una ventana abierta a lugares lejanos. Por eso, cuanto más se diferenciaban de ella, tanto más le intrigaban e interesaban. Por todo lo que podían contarle. Por lo mucho que podían ampliar su visión del mundo.

La imaginación es como un músculo que hay que tener bien entrenado y alimentado.

No existen las fronteras para aquellos que se atreven a mirar más allá.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

The autos alone remained to conquer space.

When Louie was in his sixties, he was still climbing Cahuenga Peak every week and running a mile in under six minutes. In his seventies, he discovered skateboarding. At eighty-five, he returned to Kwajalein on a project, ultimately unsuccessful

They were alone on sixty-four million square miles of ocean. A month earlier

Anywhere you would like to go, anything you would like to do, Creativity can take you there.

The beyond is calling; listen.

The creative plane is pure magic, pure adventure, pure freedom.