Quotes About Exploration

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

I think it's important to spend some time with oneself, and the mountains are a great place to do that. So I go hiking and trekking often.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.

Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.

I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

I'm always online looking for new music and things like that.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

Browseability is the key online.

Being an only child, I was alone a lot and I had to make up games.

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.

I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.