Quotes About Exploration

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

You've got to find what you love.

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.