Quotes About Exploration

But I feel like I developed my own love for hip-hop and rap music by myself. Just growing up and hearing new things. As you grow up, you begin to listen to new music that this kid is listening to, then you begin to like your own music, and start discovering it yourself.

Competition like that seen between Blue Origin and SpaceX is key to rapid progress in space.

All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

There are people who want to hear what they consider your hits. There are people who want you to experiment and explore random, rare things. And it's kind of a different; they're two different beasts.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.

As an actor, you are always looking for something different and challenging... 'High Priestess' gave me that rare opportunity.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.

I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself.

If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.