Quotes About Exploration

Education is a place where we ask, 'Did you get the answers right?' as opposed to, 'What did you learn?

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

that children who had formed close attachments to their mothers before the age of two were more confident about exploring the world around them, while those who had not were more passive and more likely to cling to their mothers. Children who did not form such secure relationships were likely to suffer from separation anxiety for years to come.

the term mentalizing—a verb. This is because mentalizing is an activity, a way of being, a general inquisitive stance rather than a set of specific techniques. Our aim is to explore this activity together with the patient.

Mentalizing virtuously means being authentically interested and curious in exploring the richness of possible realities. Active questioning expresses curiosity, but should not be expected to yield an unequivocal answer, but progress towards a conceptualization of alternatives (Skårderud and Fonagy 2012

That's the secret of creativity. You have to steal around. If you keep going back to that same 7-Eleven, they're going to catch you. So you go over to the floral shop, the gas station that nobody ever goes to, and you steal all this shit, and you put it together and people say, "Wow." They think it's yours.

She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.

In such a fashion human beings call for explanations of the things that happen to them and in such a way scenes and characters are set for exploration, like toys set out by kneeling children intent on pursuing their grim but necessary games.

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where

Cavett: What makes you stuck? Simon: Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck.

Fail often and fail cheap.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Ammonians started from Thebes with guides,

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.