Quotes About Exploration

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)

At about four and with sore feet I spotted an old rusty sign for a "minshuku" — a small family-run homestay.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and wait. You try another word. And another. Yet another. You wait. You begin again. Listening. Looking. For the elusive inevitable thing which has to arrive before it is recognised. And, like Odysseus, may not be recognised at first.

In London, "I know the answer" was never as exciting as "I'm not sure but I may have found a way.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Musk always had a book in hand. Said his brother, Kimbal, "It was not unusual for him to read ten hours a day. If it was the weekend, he could go through two books in a day.

Genius is only childhood recovered at will.

Leonardo was a doer. He painted, of course, but he also went into the mountains to examine rocks and fossils and to the tidal marshes to look at the wings and flying habits of dragonflies. He took apart machines to see how they worked and took apart humans to the same end. He recorded all of his discoveries in what amounted to about thirteen thousand pages of notes and drawings.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

You could trace it back infinitely. All these different veins, but who knew which one led to the heart?

Pátzcuaro and in the shops that catered to them, and we couldn't read the signs above the storefronts as we passed them, so we peered in every window along the way to see what was inside.

Llegó a Roma española, católica, virgen y rica y se va francesa, atea, puta y mendiga. Sobre Cristina de Suecia

Muchos poetas han escrito que pasamos por el mundo como peregrinos, que la vida no es más que un viaje. Una viajera anónima del siglo XVI escribía en sus notas <>.

Muchos poetas han escrito que pasamos por el mundo como peregrinos, que la vida no es más que un viaje. Una viajera anónima del siglo XVI escribía en sus notas "No me siento viajera, más bien peregrina en este mundo, quizá porque me gusta ir de aquí para allá ganándole tiempo a la muerte".

Risk is your friend. Don't be afraid of it. Understand it. Dance with it.

We're all of us prospectors up here, eh, Tyler? Scratchin' for that... that one crack in the ground. Never have to scratch again. I'll let you in on a little secret, Tyler: the gold's not in the ground. The gold's not anywhere up here. The real gold is south of 60 - sittin' in livin' rooms, stuck facin' the boob tube, bored to death. Bored to death, Tyler...Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure.

For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing.

I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity