Quotes About Exploration

We stopped under a railroad bridge and got out of the car to admire the river that ran through the town.

She also lent me her books, saying reading was a way of traveling the world, getting to know people you'll never meet, also traveling through time, getting to know people who lived long ago.

switchbacks, passing walls of limestone and sandstone layered like giant stacks of old papers.

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment...

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, now what?

But an adventure never returns nor is prolonged.

What sort of adventures?" I ask him, astonished. "All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believed the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

When I work I always find something.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.