Quotes About Curiosity

I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised.

Try everything on, even gowns that you don't think you'll love. You might be surprised and fall in love with a gown that you weren't drawn to at first.

Who doesn't love to be surprised?

As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

I want people to be surprised.

I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

I like surprises.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment.

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's amazing how many times three children can say 'Daddy' in just one hour, much less one day.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.

Well, we can't send Dr. Tresselt back by himself," said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. "I might find something interesting along the way, and