Quotes About Curiosity

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume.

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

In a fully discovered world exploration does not stop; it just has to be reinvented.

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

Adventure is a loose word that means different things to different people. It is a state of mind, a spirit of trying something new and leaving your comfort zone. Adventure is about enthusiasm, ambition, open-mindedness and curiosity. If this is true, then 'adventure' is not only crossing deserts and climbing mountains; adventure can be found everywhere, every day, and it is up to us to seek it out.

I now believe there is something even more important than striving for the remarkable. And that is to stop dreaming about an adventure of a lifetime, and instead pursue a lifetime of living adventure through a daily pledge to push myself a little, scare myself now and then and remain curious

Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.

the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been. Most of us are better off for the not knowing.

Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it.

So the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

Probably fake anyway," Adrana said, with a knowing sniff, as if she had plenty of experience in this area. "C'mon. Don't want to dawdle, not when there's so much to see. The next one's a Limb Broker.

I want to make sense of the world, Doctor. I want to undo the screws, take off its elegant face, glimpse the glittering movement, poke around in the gears and then decide if it's broken or not. Then I want to know if there is anything we can do to put it back together again. There may not be, but at least we'd have the satisfaction of knowing.' ' We'd be satisfied by our own impotence?' ' We won't know until we try

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

I understand people are curious, but it doesn't matter. My personal life is my personal life.

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.