Quotes About Curiosity

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

It's a little bit embarrassing to say but... I wanted to be a penguin.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.

I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.

I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be perceived.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so enamored by it.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.