Quotes About Exploration

Perhaps it is a child's magical thinking. But you cannot know a place until you know the stories it tells about itself.

Then rain began to fall in an extravagant tantrum. High up in mountain country though we were, every little river became a huge muscled snake, and the water wanted to find out everything

This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.

At other times I sit and wait. If nothing comes, I've discovered that it's better just to write something – anything. You can always tear up the piece of paper and throw it away. But if you don't begin, then nothing comes. You have to submit.

the blade and began, very carefully, to make a shallow incision in the neck of a frog he had pinned, through its splayed feet, to the untreated wood.

On the other hand, Franklin continued, white captives who were liberated from the Indians were almost impossible to keep at home: "Tho' ransomed by their friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a short time they become disgusted with our manner of life… and take the first good opportunity of escaping again into the woods.

if you're looking for enlightenment it's not going to happen on a oil tanker

We walked around four hundred miles and most nights we were the only people in the world who knew where we were. There are many definitions of freedom but surely that is one of them.

The poor have always walked and the desperate have always slept outside. We were neither, but we were still doing something that felt ancient and hard. Most Americans did not own a car until after World War Two, and traveling often meant walking out your front door and not stopping. [...] We walked around four hundred miles and most nights we were the only people in the world who knew where we were. There are many definitions of

Billy's at 44 north, 56 west and heading straight into meteorological hell.

And he sailed off through night and day And in and out of weeks And almost over a year To where the wild things are.

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications. A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications.

Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map—these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Extraordinary benefits also accrue to the tiny majority with the guts to quit early and refocus their efforts on something new.

Correct is fine. But it is better to be interesting.

One way to become creative is to discipline yourself to generate bad ideas. The worse the better. Do it a lot and magically you'll discover that some good ones slip through.

To be willing to do new things you don't think you'll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just tolerate it, but to prefer it.

Commit to the frightening work of flying blind

Start Your Journey Before You See the End

Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do.