Quotes About Exploration

The Apollo generation wasn't a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on something and goes for it. We can do it again, do it better, and do it for keeps this time. But we must decide: Will America, as a nation, support the settlement of space?

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

I prefer adventure to comfort.

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.

I needed a little time to settle, to know the Premier League, the people here, how they are, and to know the players. I had to find my confidence.

I got a phone call from David Moyes: he was interested in me going out to Real Sociedad, and I was quite keen on the idea if I didn't get the Premier League club that I wanted. Going abroad appealed to me.

I enjoyed my time in the Premier League and in Qatar.

Everyone told me the Premier League is the hardest. So I just wanted to try because I had nothing to lose.

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no one saw.

I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

After my second year in the NBA, my prep years, my college, I hadn't really found myself.

When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

If there's going to be the development of a commercial space economy, whatever it is, shouldn't you do your exploration to prepare a path for what's going to come next?

The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.

While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.