Quotes About Exploration

I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out of cookbooks. I like cookbooks for the commentary or the pictures or the history.

The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Being in New York, I have fallen in love with walking and listening to podcasts.

I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

I have basically fallen into everything I've ever done.

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

I've fallen in love with Los Angeles, and I love to explore it myself.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.

I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.

I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy.

I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about when you know the place. But sometimes on the other hand, it can be quite unchallenging.

In any 'big science' enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important also to know how to work alongside others even when they may be your fiercest competitors.

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

We play Amazing Race on New Year's Eve. My mom or aunt makes a whole list of things that we have to find, and we split up into teams. Sometimes it's like a Chinese takeout menu or take a picture with a cop, so on New Year's Eve we're running around all over the place going into restaurants and different things.

The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo.

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.