Quotes About Exploration

Our mission to space had to serve a bigger purpose, which is why St. Jude is such a big part of this. It can't simply just be about opening the door to space for everyday people.

People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I can and explore more while I do it. I feel more comfortable with opening up and telling more of my story to everyone.

When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

I used to live in New York, and I know a number of people who have friends who work at galleries. I spent time hanging out with them, going to openings. It was a good way to do research, to hang out and to look at the art that was present.

My way of playing has changed, the way I view points and look for different openings, certain opportunities.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.

Acting is my interest, but it opens up avenues.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

I give a lot of credit to my wanderings. Because it just opens up your mind to life itself.

It's amazing how a lot of the metal guys have never strummed! And it's not that challenging, but it really opens up a lot of doors in ways they might not have imagined.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.

If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.