Quotes About Curiosity

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.

I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.

I can't skateboard. I don't know how to do that!

There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

I love skeletons and bones so much.

I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I'm a natural born skeptic.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

I saw the 'Balls of Fury' script, and I was skeptical at first.

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I question a lot.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!