Quotes About Curiosity

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production: 'Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.'

Can we agree there are no stupid questions? Probably not. But let's try anyway.

Proper stupidity is fascinating.

When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

My style is to never say no.

I'm a big fan of Die Antwoord, which is a different style than I normally listen to.

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

I've always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I was in fifth grade or something and very proud of being in the adult fiction aisles. I tore through 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles.'

I was into all sorts of music as a kid. I was very curious about ethnic music and different styles. I loved Django Reinhardt. I loved Ella Fitzgerald. I was also influenced by all the crooners of the day, like Johnny Ray, Frankie Lane.

A lot of times, in a store, clothes appear strange to me, their cuts or flourishes arbitrary. Why is this look stylish now? How long will it be stylish for? It's slightly embarrassing to admit this - because, as a novelist, I'm supposed to be observant - but I'm flummoxed by the way other women dress.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'