Quotes About Exploration

There's something beyond all this. We see hints in books and music.

Disruption requires an irrational thought: "Why don't we stop what we are doing now, what we have done well, and what has been profitable to us and useful to our customers, and do this new, untested thing that has a good chance of failing?

Oregon was discovered when someone followed the Oregon Trail right out to the end.

Captain Cook quickly got up on his feet again and strutted to the street ahead of Mr. Popper with many quick turns of his head and pleased comments on the new scene.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

Najbardziej ogranicza nas wcale nie to, czego chcemy i czego nie mo?emy zrobi?. Ogranicza nas to, czego nigdy w ogóle nie braliÅ›my pod uwagÄ™".

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

Turn frustration into fascination.

The point is not to predict a sequence of events. The point is to evoke and to explore the meaning of the divine judgment which is impending on the sinful world.

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen… New Orleans. Mark Twain

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Business isn't about ties, suits and briefcases. It's about adventure.

the best motto to follow is 'Nothing ventured; nothing gained'.

Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.' Sir Thomas Beecham

If I had refused to contemplate skydiving, hot-air ballooning or crossing the Atlantic in a boat, I think that my life would have been the duller for it. I never think that I am going to die by accident, but if I were to die then all I can say is that I was wrong, and the hardened realists who kept their feet on the ground were right. But at least I tried.

On impulse, Joan and I decided to fly down to the Virgin Islands. We had nowhere to stay and not very much money, but I heard that if you expressed a serious interest in buying an island the local estate agent would put you up for nothing in a grand villa and fly you all around the Virgin Islands by helicopter.

no estoy seguro; ¿tú qué piensas?".

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this