Quotes About Exploration

Explore the rugged edge of thought . Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.

Failure is a hard word for people to take. Use the word kindness then instead. Let yourself be kind. And this kindness comes from an understanding of what it is to be a human being. Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure—just a big field to wander in.

How to generate writing ideas, things to write about? Whatever's in front of you is a good beginning. Then move out into all streets. You can go anyplace. Tell me everything you know. Don't worry if what you know you can't prove or haven't studied.

What crannies of untouched perception can you explore? What autumn was it that moon entered your life? When was it that you picked blueberries at their quintessential moment? How long did you wait for your first true bike? Who were your angels? What are you thinking of? Not thinking of? Writing can give you confidence, can train you to wake up.

Dreams are another slice of reality, not different from where we are now—they just tell about it in a different way. They also can open up your reality. They don't have the constraints of conscious logic.

It is also hard to write about a city we just moved to; it's not yet in our body.

There is no failure—just a big field to wander in.

You have to give yourself the space to write a lot without a destination

Walking home from work that night, I stopped in the Centicore Bookstore on State Street and wandered up and down the aisles. I saw a thin volume of poetry entitled Fruits and Vegetables by Erica Jong. (Jong had not come out with her novel Fear of Flying yet and was still unknown.) The first poem I opened to in the book was about cooking an eggplant!

okay. Give yourself a lot of space in which to explore writing. A cheap spiral notebook lets you feel that you can fill it quickly and afford another. Also, it is easy to carry. (I often buy notebook-size purses.) Garfield, the Muppets, Mickey Mouse, Star Wars. I use notebooks with funny covers. They come out fresh in September when school starts. They are a quarter more than the plain spirals, but I like them.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Writing is the act of discovery.

Always there is something more to know

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

My job is not to be right; it is to be in Christ. My job is to explore the wonders of His mercy and His grace together, in community.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment.

What any experimental art is trying to get you to do is move beyond your preconceptions and your expectations regarding what should be happening, what's going to happen, what kinds of effects it should have, and enter a liminal state in which those things can be redefined in the way that the particular artist or piece of art is proposing.

Chase's ability to adjust his manner of leadership to the needs of his men begs comparison to one of the greatest and most revered leaders of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton.

It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.

Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.

Wer erst handelt, wenn er eine Antwort hat, wird nie eine finden.

Cormac studied one of the portraits, vaguely identifying it as of some very early premillennial cosmonaut

He found rabbit-fur-lined underpants