Quotes About Exploration

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out.

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself.

There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.

Just knowing that there's somebody else out there - that what's happened on this planet has also happened in many other places - that might change our lives in a very subtle way, but it's interesting to know and worth looking for.

When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it.

I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

I used to go from place to place by tram. A shilling would take you all around London and the suburbs.

I went through a phase when I was watching a lot of foreign films, just itching to get out of the suburbs and explore.

The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

I'd sometimes go to Paris by myself - it was an easy two-hour train ride - to get a break from the everyday grind, to walk around a big city, ride a subway, feel the energy of a world capital.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.

I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back and forth on the subway - that's where I get my best writing done.

CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion