Quotes About Curiosity

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

I like life to surprise me.

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

I want to keep looking for roles that have an element of surprise.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

I'm not surprised that my books appeal to adults.

If we discovered, emphatically, that ghosts were real, I probably wouldn't be surprised.

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

I'm constantly surprised by human nature and humanity. And I think that's why I love what I do: because I love to story-tell and bring new characters to life.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

I'll try anything once. It's always good to see peoples' faces surprised - surprised that I race, or that I surf, that I trekked through the Himalayas. As long as I don't die, I'm good.

But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

You'd be surprised how inspired you'll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.