Quotes About Curiosity

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.