Quotes About Exploration

She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond.

This is what happens on journeys—the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.

She saw signs of another village in the distance—she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. But there was nothing for her there. She had to go get Jack now, and anyway, she was safer out here with the wolves.

It would not hurt, after all, to walk into the woods.

Something stirred inside her, some urge to plunge into the new white world and see what it had to offer. It was like she'd walked out of a dusty old wardrobe and found Narnia.

The ground beneath our feet is home to more untapped wonder than the skies above our head

this is a magical land where every one of you can find exactly the book you need at any given time—even if you don't know you need it. Every one of you can find the book that will change your life.

That's what happens on journeys, the things you find are not necessarily what you had gone looking for.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find.

bottom of the sea," whispered Ivy. Bean

They learned the lesson the ants have down pat: Don't wait to be forced to quit to start exploring alternatives.

Once we are in a group that regularly reinforces exploratory thought, the routine becomes reflexive, running on its own. Exploratory thought becomes a new habit of mind, the new routine, and one that is self-reinforced.

Quitting freed Chappelle, as it did Butterfield, to explore other opportunities that would bring him greater happiness and creative satisfaction.

The lesson here is that we shouldn't wait to be forced to find a Plan B. We should always be doing some exploration, especially because sometimes Plan B can turn out to be better than the thing you're already pursuing.

Merely pursuing a goal can cause us to fail to notice what's right in front of us. That's certainly what happened to Stewart Butterfield when he had Slack under his nose. He couldn't fully appreciate its potential until he quit Glitch, closing that account and forcing him back into exploration mode.

In order to become a better decision-maker, it's imperative to actively explore all four of the ways that decision quality and outcome quality relate to each other.

TED Talk, "The Pursuit of Ignorance.") In the book and the talk, Firestein

Déjà le souvenir de ce que j'ai écrit s'efface. Je ne sais pas ce qu'est ce texte. Même ce que je poursuivais en écrivant le livre s'est dissous. J'ai retrouvé dans mes papiers une sorte de note d'intention : Explorer le gouffre entre l'effarante réalité de ce qui arrive, au moment où ça arrive et l'étrange irréalité que revêt, des années après, ce qui est arrivé.

Felmenni a városba, álmodozni, maszturbálni és várakozni - így is össze lehet foglalni, mibÅ'l áll egy vidéken töltött kamaszkor.

La vie, le désir, asexués. Je le savais, à quinze ans, en demandant à Colette de nous embrasser sur la bouche, « pour savoir

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

When we're engaged in physical activity, our visual sense is sharpened, especially with regard to stimuli appearing in the periphery of our gaze. This shift, which is also found in non-human animals, makes evolutionary sense: the visual system becomes more sensitive when we are actively exploring our environment. When our bodies are at rest—that is, sitting still in a chair—this heightened acuity is dialed down.

how can we know all the possibilities in an infinite universe?