Quotes About Curiosity

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

It will be good fun finding out what sport baby's good at; perhaps it will be something obscure. My parents were fantastic at taking me to training sessions and letting me try lots of different sports, so I want to do the same.

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.

I am an observant. I like to observe people.

When I walk around, I look at people and observe people.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.

I like to observe others a lot.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.

It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.

Cats do this thing with their faces where they're so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they're observing.

I love observing people.

I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.