Quotes About Curiosity

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

I loved 'Beakman's World' growing up. As much as I loved 'Bill Nye,' I always preferred 'Beakman's World' because I thought it was funnier.

When I was pregnant with Alijah, little Hank would have all these questions. Where do babies come from? So I was open with him.

I've been asked a lot lately if I had a hard time getting pregnant. I've been asked how I conceived. In the same way everyone else does!

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

Suddenly I had a call one day saying they'd like me to come to the office to see Jean-Luc Godard. 'He is preparing a film called 'Breathless.' Jean would like to see you.' I said yes. I thought he was pretty strange, because at that time nobody was wearing those kind of glasses where you couldn't see the eyes.

An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

Doors that presented themselves before, which I couldn't walk through, are at least there. And there are a few keyholes I can pick.

Having presented a few travel shows, I have become less lazy on holiday; it has encouraged me to go out and explore.

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

I've always wanted to try presenting and see what it was like, and you know, it could be a huge mistake.

Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.