Quotes About Exploration

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you're lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.