Quotes About Exploration

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats.

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

I was sort of a floater in high school; I feel like I tried my hand at all the different stereotypes or cliques. I'm grateful for the experience to walk in all those different shoes.

Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason. It's just that it takes time to explore complexity.

Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.

I couldn't hold a candle to how adventurous Steve was. He found life intoxicating, and he was just in awe of every living creature.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.

It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you find what you really like and stick with it.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

I never want to stick to one genre of movies and was opened to do everything.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'