Quotes About Curiosity

I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a particular place?'

'What if?' is just about the worst question I can ask myself, and I want to avoid it at all costs for the rest of my life.

If you look at the positives, if you test yourself and challenge yourself... I describe myself as a 'yes' person. If you say no to too many things, you think 'what if'.

You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it.

I don't want to be someone who asks 'what if?'

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.

Before finding a mentor, I feel it's essential to really find your own calling and passion. From my experience, this will become a guiding bond in this kind of relationship. Be curious and engaged - and push yourself actively. Be as good as you can at what you love to do, and you will certainly get a mentor's attention.

Do what you want to try doing. Take whatever you get out of it and have fun.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

When you're a child, the colors are brighter, sounds are louder and whatever.

For whatever reason, you gravitate to certain subjects, and I read a lot of history.

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

Maybe I'll want to go to Iceland and see the volcanoes, or attend some lectures, or go to Mexico and go to the jungle. On my own. With nothing whatsoever to do with music!

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books.

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'