Quotes About Exploration

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

The two most important rules for any dream are: Start small. Start now. For Scanners, add two more:   Start everything and   Don't bother to finish any of it. (Just save it in your Daybook!)

I imagine there are orderly, well-organized Scanners in the world, but there can't be very many of them. It's far more common to hear a Scanner mumbling, "Now, where did I put that lizard?

Let's end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use.

Boredom is the mind's way of rejecting anything that lacks nutrients.

Scanners can't choose one direction. It's like telling a parent to choose one child to feed. It's just not possible. A parent knows she has to feed all her children. And a Scanner must find a way to follow every path that interests her.

Remember: It doesn't matter if you never do what you're describing on these pages, because finishing a project is not the issue here. This is about your vision and the free play of ideas for pure enjoyment.

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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up for you.

When you lose interest in something, you must always consider the possibility that you've gotten what you came for; you have completed your mission.

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.

This feeling is the cause of every Scanner's unexpected ending. The dread of being locked away from their main source of energy and joy—learning, discovering, sleuthing, creating—makes Scanners pull back from every job or project, no matter how hard they try to stay.

But the main reason Scanners are different from others, and the reason they get noticed for not sticking to anything, is because they learn faster than almost anybody.

How would it feel to forget about finding your big passion and enjoy the delightful fact that you can learn anything you like and your life will be filled with variety and excitement?

If you're burned out, learning something new or doing something creative is the cure.

Little by little, the process of writing your ideas in your Daybook will change the way you feel about not following up on every one of your good ideas, because it becomes so clear that planning, designing, and making a record of your ideas in something called a Scanner Daybook isn't making a promise; it's the way inventive people enjoy themselves.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Marco Polo dictated his Travels in French,