Quotes About Exploration

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

As a model, you really get to work everywhere in the world. You get a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.