Quotes About Curiosity

You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

There's so much data, but no one really wants to know anything, don't you think?

Stavano con lui per ore, accasciati per terra - punti interrogativi accoccolati in una pozza di trucioli di legno - e si chiedevano come mai Velutha sembrava sempre sapere quali forme levigate lo aspettassero all'interno di un pezzo di legno.

they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly adult. They looked out at the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.

to the girl. "Ha'penny," he muttered. To me, he said, "I know why your nose is so long, Cap'n. You use it to poke into business 'tisn't yours." "True." I touched the

You do not rush to obey those who seek to command you. Your independence makes people puzzle over you.

Don't let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn't. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

Steps to become a positive deviant: 1. Ask unscripted questions 2. Don't complain 3. Count something that interests you 4. Write something... Anything 5. Change yourself. Change something

My third answer for becoming a positive deviant: Count something. Regardless of what one ultimately does in medicine—or outside medicine, for that matter—one should be a scientist in the world....If you count something you find interesting, you will learn something interesting.

I tried not to seem like a kid who'd just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the plane and see the cockpit. Sure, I said. That sounds neat.

I still have no idea what I did differently that day.

But the truth of the matter is that it tends to raise as many questions as it answers.

and he never considered the idea.

I asked him if I could have a look around.

So it struck me as odd to find

At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life in this way. When we come to the bell tower, I ask her to climb up the ladder in front of me.It was rather a caddish request, I suppose, but I had often wondered. Black petticoats and pink knickers. To think I had to come all this way to find out.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets.- Bertha, The Father

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Dennis looked at the puppy in the window. We both did. It was the oddest thing. Normally, puppies in pet store windows sleep or pee or roll around on top of other dogs. This one ignored us its window-mates and was instead sitting with its nose pressed against the glass, looking at us with an extremely serious little expression on its face. An expression that seemed to me to be saying, I am a sacred cow. Get out your wallet.

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.

If you hate your life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and it doesn't fit you.