Quotes About Curiosity

I haven't the slightest wish to get in a rocket and zoom through the stratosphere.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

It's important for every child to have a bit of a naughty streak.

I've never had an adventurous streak in me.

I'm always looking at cars on the street or online.

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

You never forget your first felony. Mine was mail tampering. As a hoops-crazed 13-year-old, I rifled through a new neighbor's mailbox to confirm that the occupant of the split-level on 98 1/2 Street in Bloomington, Minn., really was former Gophers basketball star Flip Saunders.

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

Sometimes I sneak out into the streets alone, like Princess Jasmine in 'Aladdin.'

A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

I'll just walk around New York and watch people on the streets.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.

I get a little stressed even sometimes knowing all the things I want to read, I won't have enough time in this lifetime. The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.