Quotes About Exploration

were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe

Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means you should follow that.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.

Let's try and pay more attention to what's around us. Look up. Look down - if only so you don't trip. Ask questions. You know how kids always ask "why?" Ask why. Then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. Don't stop asking why until you get the answer you're looking for. Or until you're escorted away by security, whichever comes first.

I spend a lot of time exploring my body. Hang on, that doesn't sound quite right. What I mean to say is, I like to constantly be in touch with my own body. Okay, that's not right, either. My body is a wonderland. I don't even know why I just said that.

Never follow anyone else's path. Unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.

I went to the doctor to get a sonogram. I'm not pregnant, I just like to take a look once in a while; see what's going on in there.

Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.

There's a basic mechanism for learning: [when] we find something interesting to us, we try to control it, we try to make it happen again, we try to change it, or we try to manipulate it. You see very early in babies—that they're trying to reproduce interesting things; take control of interesting things. In a lot of our schools, the teacher tells us what we have to know, and then we repeat it. That's not very interesting.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but, for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

We simply don't know, which is why scientific research is an almost constant search for better truths and not "the truth.

Changing of contexts, as we've seen in earlier chapters, generates imagination and creativity as well as new energy.

Rarely will we be able to make it just as we thought it would be. But by struggling to do so, we often miss what it is—or could have been—if we had just left it alone, without trying to fix our mistakes, and went somewhere new and off plan.

To not make a mistake we have to err on the side of caution and not try anything new. Such a life would be deadening, literally and figuratively. What's more, we limit ourselves if we play it too safe.

I am, instead, suggesting that we let rules and routines guide our behavior but question them as we find ourselves in new and different contexts.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To invent. To leap. To fly. To fall. SUSAN SONTAG

It's harder to begin something new if we focus on what it is going to be, and in doing so cut ourselves off from the possibilities that arise in the doing.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. JAMES JOYCE

She thought for a minute about going back, but decided that maybe being wet on a sort-of adventure was better than being dry and bored for sure.

Boredom can be just another construct of the mind....There is always something new to notice.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

Shall we be honest about this? The mind needs wild animals. The body needs the trek that takes it looking for them.

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