Quotes About Exploration

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, and I wanted to do that too. And I told my family, I said, 'I'd like to go down and be like William Beebe,' and they said, 'Well, maybe you can take up typing and get to be the secretary of William Beebe or somebody like him.'

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.

When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'

William Blake said 200 years ago that when man and mountains meet, something big is happening. I'm searching for the 'big.'

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything and converse and pick people's brains, and I ask people to do the same. I'm into learning anything new and trying new stuff.

If you want something you've never had before, you gotta be willing to do something you've never done before.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

Whenever you put out music, you're just rolling the dice, and the nice thing with Spotify is they're willing to roll them with you.

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.

As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to.

I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.