Quotes About Exploration

In an interview in 1992, Leary stated, "It is a genetic imperative to explore the brain. Because it's there. If you're carrying around in your head 100 billion mainframe computers, you just have to get in there and learn how to operate them.

In much the same way, when we set out to find a new idea, or the answer to a problem, we must assume that the answer exists already—somewhere—and set out to find it.

I failed once in the past, so I will probably fail in the future" is neither logical nor rational. To conclude "I can't" in advance, without trying, and in the absence of any evidence to support the inevitability of failure, is not rational. We should be more like the man who was asked if he could play the piano. "I don't know," he said. "What do you mean you don't know?" he was asked. "I have never tried," he replied.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

Postoji muka odlu?ivanja, kao i muka ?ekanja, a svijet je zatvoren i otkriva se tek kad u?emo u igru, kad ostvarujemo mogu?nosti. Ni za jednu životnu stazu ne postoji vodi?, svaka je neispitana, neponovljiva, zato je u životu avantura pravilo, a ne izuzetak, jer je putovanje kroz neispitane predjele, koje niko poslije nas ne može ponoviti, sve se staze potiru, uvijek nanovo se stvara nova konfiguracija, uvijek se ukazuje drugi pejzaž, druga klima, za svakog posebno.

Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

Crying Call nestled in a river gorge, with raw peas on either side. The red stone, the dark green of the pines, the white glaze of snow, and the arching, varnished sky spread around her. She stopped at the overlook and inhaled it al. Her heart was pounding, but with life. A hawk swooped past, screeching.

she sometimes makes me think of a planet rocketing along in a parallel universe

The open road. What a trio of words. What a vision of blue sky and untouched hills and narrow trails heading God knew where and being free—free and hungry, free and cold, free and wet, free and lost. Who could mourn such conditions, faced with the alternative?

I skim through time and space at the speed of thought. The unknown is my prey, I bring it to earth in a single exquisite bound.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

To be lost in a novel meant you were not lost in your own life.

I want to not think so much about what I want, and what I missed out on. I want to think about other things—other people, in other places even. I am so tired of all the little ironic in-jokes, and reciting lines from TV shows and movies and books. Everything from the . . . circumscribed world. I want an uncircumscribed world.

The underaged had not been here before when Ethan was given his tour;

time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.

I still feel like teenage girls are not taken seriously by the culture at large, especially not their darker or more complicated feelings—of aggression, desire, ambition. To me, these feelings and drives are so fundamental to girlhood and to womanhood, and I love exploring them. And trying to give voice to them as best I can. I think women are always trying to figure out their own adolescence. We never stop.

I always feel lifted the minute I taste real air. The minute I see the sun-scorched signs, the swaying traffic-lights. The lab is gone. But not tonight, it seems. Tonight all I can think of is Diane Fleming rolling into town, starting fires.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

The hardest thing in this world is finding out what you're capable of.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

The earth had set me free. The city was at my feet. I forgot where I was and that I had not touched a pencil in months.

Love comes in all shapes and flavors, and I just want to be able to taste them all.